In Europe, under the EU Copyright directive, it's illegal to chip a console - actually, the offense is "circumventing copy protection systems"
You are completely free to paint your xbox or drill holes in it, but not to modify the circuitry in a way that bypasses the security/anti-piracy features
unnn...wrong and wrong again 'll quote from that last link... I have downloaded music over the internet. Can I be sued?
Not if you have downloaded songs that have been put online with the approval of record labels and artists - which usually involves paying for royalties. Sanctioned services include Apple's iTunes and Napster in the US, plus MyCokeMusic, HMV and Virgin in the UK.
If you download unapproved tracks from unsanctioned sites - whether it is one song or a million - you are infringing copyright and you run the risk of being sued.
"A lot of school's don't teach this side of technology to their students"
What is the school posessing in your sentence?
Please do not post on slashdot until you have completed our short course, "Apostophe 101"
APOSTROPHE 101
Module 1: Possessives
In English, possession is usually indicated by adding an apostrophe - s to the end of a noun.
e.g. John's car
Module 2: Plurals
In English, a plural is usually indicated by adding an s to the end of a noun
e.g. John's car has five wheels.
Module 3: Contractions
In English an apostrophe is often inserted to represent missing letters
e.g. John's car has five wheels. The fifth wheel's in the trunk, though or John's not counting the steering wheel in this analysis, by the way.
Here the missing letter is the letter "i" - i.e., "The fifth wheel is in the trunk, though" or "John is not counting the steering wheel..."
Module 4: The exceptions
1) Nouns that end in an s can indicate plurals or possessives with the addition of an apostrophe
e.g. "Thomas' bicycle has but two wheels", rather than the utterly agonizing "Thomas's Bicycle...".
2) Usually, its is only apostrophised to indicate the contraction of "it is"
e.g. The law was rejected because of its ambiguity. It's quite likely that it will be revised and reintroduced at the next session.
But this changes when "It" serves duty as a proper noun:
"The high spot of the Adams Family convention was the costume pageant. I counted about 200 Morticias, 180 Gomez' and 89 Cousin Its. I'd forgotten how long Cousin It's hair was"
But here in the UK,we have the RIP Act which mandates disclosure of keys to authorities...
If intercepted communications are encrypted (encoded and made secret), the act will force the individual to surrender the keys (pin numbers which allow users to decipher encoded data), on pain of jail sentences of up to two years
Ummm there are no stars in the "world", what you should have said is "Currently the 18th brightest star in the known universe as visible from planet Earth"
well no, but it's EXTREMELY unlikely - especially if the compiler passes an ANSI C test suite - the program would have to be quite exotic to uncover a compiler bug...
If you "read" my post, you will find that I used the word "probably" Additionally, if someone uses an EMP pu;lse generator, it's unlikely that they'll be just dropping in for a friendly chat - in which case, you may be thinking about leaving town rather than the integrety of you porn collection...
Tricky when you have sites seperated by thousands of miles (UK and India) and in each country, several sites hundreds of miles apart, and oh yeah, daily progress meetings...
face to face is great but not practicle in today's global village working environment
I had another thought, if you are hit my an EMP, you'll prob ably not have to worry too much about the integrety of your nice gallery of flesh tone images... (think Nuclear attack...)
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In Europe, under the EU Copyright directive, it's illegal to chip a console - actually, the offense is "circumventing copy protection systems"
You are completely free to paint your xbox or drill holes in it, but not to modify the circuitry in a way that bypasses the security/anti-piracy features
Not if you have downloaded songs that have been put online with the approval of record labels and artists - which usually involves paying for royalties. Sanctioned services include Apple's iTunes and Napster in the US, plus MyCokeMusic, HMV and Virgin in the UK.
If you download unapproved tracks from unsanctioned sites - whether it is one song or a million - you are infringing copyright and you run the risk of being sued.
I'll tradmark "rediculous" - after all, it's not a dictonary word... The proceeds from /. alone should set me up for a very comfortable life...
"if(cond){bash};"
How irresponsible. Don't you know the world's supply of semicolons is running low? And you go and use one totally unnecessarily. You insenstive clod!
Thanks for the link - Newton undeniably said it though! The quote is validly attributed to Newton, even though he was paraphrasing Chartres.
Chartres' original version is much more poetic
Ugh, Incorrect apostophe use detected.
"A lot of school's don't teach this side of technology to their students"
What is the school posessing in your sentence?
Please do not post on slashdot until you have completed our short course, "Apostophe 101"
APOSTROPHE 101
Module 1: Possessives
In English, possession is usually indicated by adding an apostrophe - s to the end of a noun.
e.g. John's car
Module 2: Plurals
In English, a plural is usually indicated by adding an s to the end of a noun
e.g. John's car has five wheels.
Module 3: Contractions
In English an apostrophe is often inserted to represent missing letters
e.g. John's car has five wheels. The fifth wheel's in the trunk, though
or John's not counting the steering wheel in this analysis, by the way.
Here the missing letter is the letter "i" - i.e., "The fifth wheel is in the trunk, though" or "John is not counting the steering wheel..."
Module 4: The exceptions
1) Nouns that end in an s can indicate plurals or possessives with the addition of an apostrophe
e.g. "Thomas' bicycle has but two wheels", rather than the utterly agonizing "Thomas's Bicycle...".
2) Usually, its is only apostrophised to indicate the contraction of "it is"
e.g. The law was rejected because of its ambiguity. It's quite likely that it will be revised and reintroduced at the next session.
But this changes when "It" serves duty as a proper noun:
"The high spot of the Adams Family convention was the costume pageant. I counted about 200 Morticias, 180 Gomez' and 89 Cousin Its. I'd forgotten how long Cousin It's hair was"
The quote is "standing ON the shoulders"
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton.
No, he should be modded "insightful".
He's one of the few people around here that can correctly spell "ridiculous".
I've just started reading the comments on this story and have already count a dozen "rediculous" words.
There is NO FARKING "E" in RIDICULOUS people!!!
They don'tneed the big computers, most countries now have laws where you are forced to turn over the keys...
But here in the UK,we have the RIP Act which mandates disclosure of keys to authorities...
If intercepted communications are encrypted (encoded and made secret), the act will force the individual to surrender the keys (pin numbers which allow users to decipher encoded data), on pain of jail sentences of up to two years
Ummm there are no stars in the "world", what you should have said is "Currently the 18th brightest star in the known universe as visible from planet Earth"
office 2000 does (soory for lateness, been out of town for a week)
"no, it isn't" oh yes it is
Not bullshit - google for osa.exe... yeah, it doesn't load the whole program, but it does load a launch helper....
gasoline is free? wtf u smokin man?
UK gasoline prices - around 8op ($1.46) a LITRE or, $5.50 a US Gallon.
I know it's much cheaper in the states but it sure isn't free!
I think you mean "wary" not "weary"!!!
Dud that chicken guy is funny! - try "clap" when he claps his lights go out!
well no, but it's EXTREMELY unlikely - especially if the compiler passes an ANSI C test suite - the program would have to be quite exotic to uncover a compiler bug...
and memory blocks not actively in use gets paged out to swapfile... Computers 101
If a c program core dumps it's because it's badly written c code - not the compiler's fault at all!
ummm how do you get that coke is ok from that statement? to me it suggests coke is just as bad...
If you "read" my post, you will find that I used the word "probably" Additionally, if someone uses an EMP pu;lse generator, it's unlikely that they'll be just dropping in for a friendly chat - in which case, you may be thinking about leaving town rather than the integrety of you porn collection...
Tricky when you have sites seperated by thousands of miles (UK and India) and in each country, several sites hundreds of miles apart, and oh yeah, daily progress meetings...
face to face is great but not practicle in today's global village working environment
No, he's improving his blood circulation, idiot.
I had another thought, if you are hit my an EMP, you'll prob ably not have to worry too much about the integrety of your nice gallery of flesh tone images... (think Nuclear attack...)