Participating ISPs can choose from a list of penalties, or what the RIAA calls "mitigation measures," which include throttling down the customer's connection speed and suspending Web access until the subscriber agrees to stop pirating.
The only reason why I could see them doing something like that is because they may be held liable. Oh wait, DMCA gives them Safe Harbor. So what exactly gives them the power to stop the service that I pay for because I may be using it for something illegal. It's like my phone getting shut off by T-Mobile because I may have used it to call a dealer to buy some pot.
I see class action lawsuits in the future for these companies.
Actually, a 355mL mexican coke is cheaper than that new 12.5oz around here. Also, the import stuff is in a glass bottle, so that makes it taste better too.
This happened to me several times at the Woodland Hills and Burbank stores. I haven't had much issue with the Oxnard store though.
And yes, I told them that even Razer said it was faulty, and the sticker they slapped on it said Reduced Price.
As for the DOA HDDs, its about 75% of the reduced HDDs were dead that I've gone through. This has been the same problem at the Woodland Hills/Burbank stores since I started shopping at them around 2001 (atleast the Burbank one).
Frys is good as long as: A) You know exactly what you want and B) You avoid the white sticker of doom.
I went in, bought a Razer Lycosa keyboard from them. I kept getting phantom keystrokes from the keyboard. No problem, just update firmware? Didnt fix it. New drivers? Didn't fix it. Different computer? Didn't fix it. Okay, so the keyboard is obviously broken. After talking to someone at Razer, they told me that the keyboard was faulty and to return it instead of sending it to them for replacement. I get into Fry's, tell them its broken, and I watch them repack it, slap on a 5% discount sticker on it, and have someone go put it back on the shelf.
Oh, and don't even get me started on how many DOA HDDs my dad and I bought from them that all had white stickers.
I have for audio recording and video production in school. We got two brand new G5 towers the week they came out, and I did really enjoy using them.
BUT I would never own one myself. I game way too much to ever bother with a Mac. Since I do build my own systems, why would I ever spend so much money on lower quality parts? My $1000 budget rig in the office is more powerful than a $2700 Mac.
Well it seems as if it would be your problem for using public trackers. I've been on private trackers almost exclusively for 2 years now, and I haven't looked back.
From Wikipedia:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.
Dunning-Kruger Effect
Study was done in 99, so they are only 12 years late on this one.
Thinking about the attack that they did, even the way Chase has to send a verification code every time you log in to a different computer would be useless against this attack. They could just have it send the verification code to the phone through SMS.
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Participating ISPs can choose from a list of penalties, or what the RIAA calls "mitigation measures," which include throttling down the customer's connection speed and suspending Web access until the subscriber agrees to stop pirating.
The only reason why I could see them doing something like that is because they may be held liable. Oh wait, DMCA gives them Safe Harbor. So what exactly gives them the power to stop the service that I pay for because I may be using it for something illegal. It's like my phone getting shut off by T-Mobile because I may have used it to call a dealer to buy some pot. I see class action lawsuits in the future for these companies.
Actually, a 355mL mexican coke is cheaper than that new 12.5oz around here. Also, the import stuff is in a glass bottle, so that makes it taste better too.
This happened to me several times at the Woodland Hills and Burbank stores. I haven't had much issue with the Oxnard store though.
And yes, I told them that even Razer said it was faulty, and the sticker they slapped on it said Reduced Price.
As for the DOA HDDs, its about 75% of the reduced HDDs were dead that I've gone through. This has been the same problem at the Woodland Hills/Burbank stores since I started shopping at them around 2001 (atleast the Burbank one).
Frys is good as long as: A) You know exactly what you want and B) You avoid the white sticker of doom. I went in, bought a Razer Lycosa keyboard from them. I kept getting phantom keystrokes from the keyboard. No problem, just update firmware? Didnt fix it. New drivers? Didn't fix it. Different computer? Didn't fix it. Okay, so the keyboard is obviously broken. After talking to someone at Razer, they told me that the keyboard was faulty and to return it instead of sending it to them for replacement. I get into Fry's, tell them its broken, and I watch them repack it, slap on a 5% discount sticker on it, and have someone go put it back on the shelf. Oh, and don't even get me started on how many DOA HDDs my dad and I bought from them that all had white stickers.
I have for audio recording and video production in school. We got two brand new G5 towers the week they came out, and I did really enjoy using them. BUT I would never own one myself. I game way too much to ever bother with a Mac. Since I do build my own systems, why would I ever spend so much money on lower quality parts? My $1000 budget rig in the office is more powerful than a $2700 Mac.
Well it seems as if it would be your problem for using public trackers. I've been on private trackers almost exclusively for 2 years now, and I haven't looked back.
Dreamcast definitely delivered with WinCE. Though, it was a highly optimized, very specific version of it.
From Wikipedia: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. Dunning-Kruger Effect Study was done in 99, so they are only 12 years late on this one.
Oh yeah, completely forgot about that. My brain isn't working too well tonight, it seems.
I can almost here Jack Thompson weep for not thinking about this first.
No Phantom/300 in this post?
Thinking about the attack that they did, even the way Chase has to send a verification code every time you log in to a different computer would be useless against this attack. They could just have it send the verification code to the phone through SMS.