OK, so activation cracked copies will be fairly easy to ID, but if you've got a corporate copy (which most pirated releases are anyway) and a valid key there's no way to tell, surely.
Until you start seeing 3,000 different IP addresses trying to validate the same product key to get the same downloads.
You know, you could create the law yourself, then everyone would have to obey. Except maybe LrdHlmt's Law just doesn't have the, er, vowels it needs.:)
The amount of cash in the bank is not the only money Microsoft has made. They have also bought a lot of other companies, invested in intellectual property, and made lucrative deals. To figure out how much money they've made in 24 years (not 30, mind you), you need to take in the net worth of all their assets and not only the cash they have. Sell all of their software rights (billions right there), sell the companies they own, sell the buildings they have, sell the office chairs, desks, filing cabinets and computers, and sell their patent portfolio (worth billions if not trillions).
Microsoft has made more than $60 billion in 24 years.
The problem is the submitter wants to replace whatever hard drive has died on him with one of similar capacity. There's no doubt that the drive would cost him $130. However, he wants to know how he can make use of a 1-gig (or less!) USB drive -- thus completely ignoring the fact that he can, indeed, replace the drive with a $15 model which should have 2-4 gigabytes of space. After all, it obviously doesn't matter to him to have a smaller amount of disk space.
That's when you send spam to millions of people in America saying you need help cashing the check, and that they can keep 20% of the profits if they'll just send you their bank information and address.
California: This state is so huge I'll take it area by area:
Los Angeles: See hollywood: the hollywood letters, mann's chinese theater which is the site of many movie premieres, Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills which has some of the world's most expensive shops and botiques.
Bay Area: See apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Netscape and Google are in Mountain View. See downtown San Fransisco, ride both a trolley and a cable car, see the famous pier 39 sea lions.
Other areas: See Death Valley, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe (ski there too -- the area has about 20 ski resorts), and the giant redwood forests of northern california.
Oregon: See Portland and its beautiful bridges. Also, Hood River, OR on the columbia river gorge, is a world-famous windsurfing spot.
Washington: See downtown Seattle, go up in the space needle. Find the downtown REI store with the world's highest freestanding rock climbing structure. Go to Redmond, see Microsoft. Go to the Olympic Peninsula, see the Hoh rainforest, and see the pacific ocean beaches, IMHO the most beautiful beaches anywhere (but cold!). Go see the Gorge Amphitheater, in George, Washington, where lots of big concerts happen. See Skagit Valley, with North America's largest tulip fields. See Yakima, home of Washington's apple industry. If you have the right visas, go to vancouver, british columbia, canada. And also hit up Whistler, North America's finest ski resort (and possibly the world's).
Idaho: See Sun Valley, the world's first true ski resort. Idaho is also famous for its potatos, but I don't know how exciting that would be:)
Nevada: Go to Las Vegas, even if you don't gamble. This is an amusement park that's a city. Well, the Strip is anyway.
Arizona: See the grand canyon. One of the seven wonders of the world, you must see this. If you have time, and equipment, hike to the bottom.
Texas: See the San Antonio riverwalk. See Houston and Dallas. Go to the Alamo.
Louisiana: See New Orleans and the french quarter. Get some cajun food. See the bayous.
Ohio: Home of more than half of the nation's roller coasters, see King's Island in Cincinnati, and Cedar Point in Sandusky. See the prison used in the movie, The Shawshank Redemption in Mansfield.
Indiana: See Indianapolis and the Indy 500 raceway. Gary, IN is where the Jackson five grew up, but it is a poor Chicago suburb so go only if you're a diehard Jackson fan.
Illinois: Spend time in Chicago. Chicago is the only city that no one I know dislikes. See all the attractions along the Lake. Ride the El. Naperville is the suburb where the Smashing Pumpkins got their start.
Wisconsin: Famous for cheese. See Milwauke.
Minnesota: The twin cities have more theater seats per capita than any other city in the country, and each city (Minneapolis, St. Paul) has its own style. See the world's largest mall, complete with indoor roller coaster, here. See General Mills' world headquarters.
Missouri: See the St. Louis arch, the gateway to the west. If you like Mountain Biking, the Berryman trail in SW missouri has been called the best trail outside of the rockies and the appalachians.
North Carolina: See Myrtle Beach. Visit Cape Hattaras. See Asateague island, with its wild horses. Go to the Smoky Mountains National Park, the busiest national park in the US.
South Carolina: See Charleston, visit the old deep south.
New Jersey: See Ocean City for its beaches, and monopoly streets. See Atlantic city for the east coast gambling mecca.
New York: NYC is a must-see. There's so much to explore here, I won't mention anything:)
Maine: Go crabbing, and collect cranberries.
Vermont: See some of the prettiest fall colors during september/october.
Since you never gave this address to anyone, the only possible way the spammers got the address is because Microsoft sold it to them.
It doesn't happen to be possible that spammers know there are a lot of hotmail users, and thus spammers use a dictionary attack to generate random usernames? No, that's silly. Much easier to blame MS which is suing spammers and trying to ease at least some of the spam problem, than it is to blame Alan Ralsky sitting in his basement sending you spam.
The last problem I have with commuter lanes is that the rest of us paid for them, but only 7% of the population can/does take advantage. That is STUPID public policy!
What if the money generated is used to pay for new roads for everyone? The public paid for the original highway, and could not use one lane. But the users of that one lane can now pay for a new road for everyone to use. And once that new highway is built, with another HOT lane, then you have two highways that help pay for a third, and so on. This to me is using public funds as an investment for the future. Think long term, not short.
At this point, you've already got their information, so they can't just hang up and run. Inform them that you wish to recoup the cost of this call, and that you want them to send you a cheque for $100 USD. If they refuse, tell them you will take it up with the FCC, and the fine they will levy will be much, much more than that.
Actually, the federal telecommunications act of 1996 allows you to sue for $500 for each such offense, the same as for telemarketers who call you when you are on their do not call list. If you don't get the check for $100 as an out of court settlement, go to court and take them for the full 500 plus court fees.
the tires rolling upslope and bumping into one another also feels "wrong".
The article states that the tires were filled with weights so they would roll uphill at the slightest nudge. I suppose this is the cheat, but I'm not sure.
Although the rolling muffler does look a bit odd (it seems like it does several more turns than it should)
Have you ever rolled an american football end over end? Its shape is similar to the muffler, and it rolls quite a bit further than I would expect.
I agree that what bioinformatics results in is very useful information, but my point is that it's not different from massive string matching. As such, if you the programmer aren't interested in string matching, you probably won't be interested in bioinformatics either.
As a biology and computer science major (and a master's in computer science) from a top 25 school, I feel I have a right to speak my mind about bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is getting a lot of attention from the media, and you'd be forgiven for thinking that it is new and exciting. Really, the reason it is getting so much attention is because we just recently completed drafts of the human genome sequence. Thus we have a whole bunch of data, and don't really know what it means. Bioinformatics simply takes things we know (ie, the sequence AGCCTG_GT is a promoter sequence) and searches a huge long string for all instances of that sequence. Or we're trying to locate repetitions of one region of the sequence in another region. It's really not that exciting. Yes, it is really important to us since without these DNA strings, we wouldn't be here, but its just string matching on a grand scale, and nothing more.
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...too bad it's not going to air on CBS.
OK, so activation cracked copies will be fairly easy to ID, but if you've got a corporate copy (which most pirated releases are anyway) and a valid key there's no way to tell, surely.
Until you start seeing 3,000 different IP addresses trying to validate the same product key to get the same downloads.
I pay my nanny to take my child to a private school where the nuns will instill this knowledge in him for me.
There are tens of people with a 2 digit UID.
You know, you could create the law yourself, then everyone would have to obey. Except maybe LrdHlmt's Law just doesn't have the, er, vowels it needs. :)
The amount of cash in the bank is not the only money Microsoft has made. They have also bought a lot of other companies, invested in intellectual property, and made lucrative deals. To figure out how much money they've made in 24 years (not 30, mind you), you need to take in the net worth of all their assets and not only the cash they have. Sell all of their software rights (billions right there), sell the companies they own, sell the buildings they have, sell the office chairs, desks, filing cabinets and computers, and sell their patent portfolio (worth billions if not trillions).
Microsoft has made more than $60 billion in 24 years.
The problem is the submitter wants to replace whatever hard drive has died on him with one of similar capacity. There's no doubt that the drive would cost him $130. However, he wants to know how he can make use of a 1-gig (or less!) USB drive -- thus completely ignoring the fact that he can, indeed, replace the drive with a $15 model which should have 2-4 gigabytes of space. After all, it obviously doesn't matter to him to have a smaller amount of disk space.
Why do you want to assume that someone has already thought of all the good ideas, and so you shouldn't think of ideas yourself?
Back for more, huh?
That's when you send spam to millions of people in America saying you need help cashing the check, and that they can keep 20% of the profits if they'll just send you their bank information and address.
I dunno about you, but I'd rather be a lowly IT tech than be ABBA ;)
Because you own the car, but only license the software that runs it.
You mean like this?
What?! But I want to blow things up!
I agree. In fact, the subject line might as well just say "He gets laid, so you don't have to."
Since you never gave this address to anyone, the only possible way the spammers got the address is because Microsoft sold it to them.
It doesn't happen to be possible that spammers know there are a lot of hotmail users, and thus spammers use a dictionary attack to generate random usernames? No, that's silly. Much easier to blame MS which is suing spammers and trying to ease at least some of the spam problem, than it is to blame Alan Ralsky sitting in his basement sending you spam.
The last problem I have with commuter lanes is that the rest of us paid for them, but only 7% of the population can/does take advantage. That is STUPID public policy!
What if the money generated is used to pay for new roads for everyone? The public paid for the original highway, and could not use one lane. But the users of that one lane can now pay for a new road for everyone to use. And once that new highway is built, with another HOT lane, then you have two highways that help pay for a third, and so on. This to me is using public funds as an investment for the future. Think long term, not short.
I think Dennis Miller put it best.."I don't think you should be allowed to drive IF you are old enough to remember when there WEREN'T any cars..."
And certainly if you CAN'T remember anymore, but used to be able to.
At this point, you've already got their information, so they can't just hang up and run. Inform them that you wish to recoup the cost of this call, and that you want them to send you a cheque for $100 USD. If they refuse, tell them you will take it up with the FCC, and the fine they will levy will be much, much more than that.
Actually, the federal telecommunications act of 1996 allows you to sue for $500 for each such offense, the same as for telemarketers who call you when you are on their do not call list. If you don't get the check for $100 as an out of court settlement, go to court and take them for the full 500 plus court fees.
Man those lab rats are getting smart...
It's all the radiation...
Actually, by my calculations, Quality is job 0.99999999572, but then again, I'm on a Celeron.
the tires rolling upslope and bumping into one another also feels "wrong".
The article states that the tires were filled with weights so they would roll uphill at the slightest nudge. I suppose this is the cheat, but I'm not sure.
Although the rolling muffler does look a bit odd (it seems like it does several more turns than it should)
Have you ever rolled an american football end over end? Its shape is similar to the muffler, and it rolls quite a bit further than I would expect.
I agree that what bioinformatics results in is very useful information, but my point is that it's not different from massive string matching. As such, if you the programmer aren't interested in string matching, you probably won't be interested in bioinformatics either.
As a biology and computer science major (and a master's in computer science) from a top 25 school, I feel I have a right to speak my mind about bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is getting a lot of attention from the media, and you'd be forgiven for thinking that it is new and exciting. Really, the reason it is getting so much attention is because we just recently completed drafts of the human genome sequence. Thus we have a whole bunch of data, and don't really know what it means. Bioinformatics simply takes things we know (ie, the sequence AGCCTG_GT is a promoter sequence) and searches a huge long string for all instances of that sequence. Or we're trying to locate repetitions of one region of the sequence in another region. It's really not that exciting. Yes, it is really important to us since without these DNA strings, we wouldn't be here, but its just string matching on a grand scale, and nothing more.
Canada's actually .ca.us