Oh boy! Who needs content when you can have wall-to-wall advertisements?
There was a recent article tthat suggested that product placement could be a means of getting the content cabal to give up their hard stance on PVR's, or conversely, cause a degradation in content quality.
Oh well, at least it will be better than putting ads in music.
If it[inserting advertisements into the product] adds value to the consumer, I'd like to hear about it.
I can think of plenty of cases where this is apparently the case. How else can you explain the fact that tee-shirts which turn people into walking ads for Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, etc. sell for so much more than a blank tee-shirt?
By simply adding the small amounts of happiness caused to these millions up, we see that the *total* amount of unhappiness caused by spammers is far greater than that caused by the typical murder, rapist or arsonist.
Have you developed an SI unit for scientifically quantifying unhappiness? Like
1 rape = -1000 IHU (International Happiness Unit) 1 spam = -0.1 IHU, 1 segfault = -1 IHU 1 the execution of one spammer = 5342 IHU
I'm confident that a system like this can be worked out, as it is quite simple to convert qualitatively sized packets of subjective emotion to discrete quantities of (once again subjective) societal harm.
Oh, a sarcasm detecter! That's a REAL useful invention! - Comic Book Guy
Spamming from unsecured wireless networks will be a fun form of shameless profit until people start setting up "sting" nodes that will be specially rigged so that upon detecting that they are being used by a spammer, they will photograph their license plates, call the cops, and maybe spray some hot tar and feathers for good measure.
The chronic daemons out there would know that you might have to smoke pot up to 15 times before you build up enough of a reverse tolerance to get high. So, I'm guessing that the reasoning behind the FBI choosing 15 as their "magic number" is that if you've toked up that many times, then you must have gotten high at least once, but decided it's not your thing. People who could turn down weed after getting high off of it would then be less likely to care about defending its users or advocating its legalization than somebody who smoked the stuff continuously for a period of their life.
"They'll grudgingly let you past if you just do forensics, but they feel you really should chase bad guys with a gun before you chase bad guys with a computer."
No reasoning problems here...
"We don't trust you with a computer, so here's your gun!"
However, mentioning that the duty of the cybercop is to chase bad guys with computer does put the fitness requirements into perspective... Man, computers are a !$%&@ to carry, especially while running, and I'm sure you've really gotta be built to throw that thing hard enough to take out the perp!
All you have to do is look at the religion's main tenets and religious texts and use rock solid reasoning and sound science to decide whether they contradict themselves or phenomena that exist in the natural world. So, for example, if a religion holds to be truth a text that specifically states that the earth goes around the sun, when empirical observation has shown otherwise... oh, wait.
Just think of how much it'll cost to hire the multiplex/demultiplexer's. Anyways, wouldn't an optic-al solution be more in the spirit of Sir Isaac Newton?
Anybody else not see the lack of logic here? MS has two crypto implementations? One for the OS, one for the API? Why the redundancy?
The logic is so obviously simple:
increased redundancy == increased failsafety
So, if one of the crypto API's has a security hole, the OS can rely on the backup API, just like how a bike with one flat tire can be ridden home on the remaining good tire.
I tell you, those MS guys really got some effective circumetry in their noggins!
Just put all of your findings in a U.S. citizenship application, then send it to the INS for processing. With what's going on at the INS right now, it'll take YEARS before that application ever sees the light of day again.
According to a related story, the cellphones that people commonly use now are practically treated as disposables. I guess they're not out of their minds to create a phone that is at least recycleable.
I don't think that many people here have taken note of this, but crop circles are illegal. Crops are destroyed, property lost, and hence aliens, Disney, or whoever creates these things should be brought to justice for their crimes. So I could se a reason for Disney for not wanting to be associated with any crop circle hoaxes.
FYI, it's a "self-healing" article. Whenever the writer made a typo, the masssively parallel content management system dynamically replaced the mistyped word with a buzzword, making for one superintegrated synergistic media experience with meshed redundancy capabilities.
Even if this little tidbit of corporate lynch mobbery manages to get passed, would it even work? DoS attacks work great if the targets are small, but attacking pirates on a P2P network will likely be analogous to punching a swarm of flies.
Actually, If I'm not mistaken, it was Play which had every song licensed for usage in commercials and soundtracks. If everyone had pirated Play rather than buying it, Moby and his label would still likely recoup their expenses and make a fat profit. I'd expect that if 18 was as good as Play, there's no reason why the same thing couldn't happen again.
I personally only buy CD's put out by smaller artists for two reasons:
1. I like to support indy artists, because they're the ones that need the money the most.
2. It's hard to find music from indy musicians on file-sharing networks.
So, that's my code of "piracy ethics". (sounds like a oxymoron, doesn't it?)
While I enjoy music, and I want to see it remain a part of our culture, I don't see why we need artists to be megastars and major labels to be money hoses for their shareholders for that to happen.
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Hows this for a catastrophe? And some companies are unwilling to avert it to protect their precious IP. Oh wait- that's all happening in Africa, so it can't matter.
Somehow, I don't think it's the lack of a catastrophe that's the problem- I think its the general public's ignorance of the impact of IP laws that is.
Croup (kr??p), n. [F. croupe hind quarters,
croup, rump, of German or Icel. origin; cf. Icel. kryppa hump; akin to Icel. kroppr. Cf. Crop.]
The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.
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This reminded me of the time I read Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems.
But...I already feel like NOT pirating Bon Jovi music.
Oh boy! Who needs content when you can have wall-to-wall advertisements?
There was a recent article tthat suggested that product placement could be a means of getting the content cabal to give up their hard stance on PVR's, or conversely, cause a degradation in content quality.
Oh well, at least it will be better than putting ads in music.
If it[inserting advertisements into the product] adds value to the consumer, I'd like to hear about it.
I can think of plenty of cases where this is apparently the case. How else can you explain the fact that tee-shirts which turn people into walking ads for Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, etc. sell for so much more than a blank tee-shirt?
By simply adding the small amounts of happiness caused to these millions up, we see that the *total* amount of unhappiness caused by spammers is far greater than that caused by the typical murder, rapist or arsonist.
Have you developed an SI unit for scientifically quantifying unhappiness? Like
1 rape = -1000 IHU (International Happiness Unit)
1 spam = -0.1 IHU,
1 segfault = -1 IHU
1 the execution of one spammer = 5342 IHU
I'm confident that a system like this can be worked out, as it is quite simple to convert qualitatively sized packets of subjective emotion to discrete quantities of (once again subjective) societal harm.
Oh, a sarcasm detecter! That's a REAL useful invention! - Comic Book Guy
Spamming from unsecured wireless networks will be a fun form of shameless profit until people start setting up "sting" nodes that will be specially rigged so that upon detecting that they are being used by a spammer, they will photograph their license plates, call the cops, and maybe spray some hot tar and feathers for good measure.
The chronic daemons out there would know that you might have to smoke pot up to 15 times before you build up enough of a reverse tolerance to get high. So, I'm guessing that the reasoning behind the FBI choosing 15 as their "magic number" is that if you've toked up that many times, then you must have gotten high at least once, but decided it's not your thing. People who could turn down weed after getting high off of it would then be less likely to care about defending its users or advocating its legalization than somebody who smoked the stuff continuously for a period of their life.
"They'll grudgingly let you past if you just do forensics, but they feel you really should chase bad guys with a gun before you chase bad guys with a computer."
No reasoning problems here...
"We don't trust you with a computer, so here's your gun!"
However, mentioning that the duty of the cybercop is to chase bad guys with computer does put the fitness requirements into perspective... Man, computers are a !$%&@ to carry, especially while running, and I'm sure you've really gotta be built to throw that thing hard enough to take out the perp!
'cause this millenium is certainly feeling more like a digital copyright millenium than simply a digital millenium.
All you have to do is look at the religion's main tenets and religious texts and use rock solid reasoning and sound science to decide whether they contradict themselves or phenomena that exist in the natural world. So, for example, if a religion holds to be truth a text that specifically states that the earth goes around the sun, when empirical observation has shown otherwise... oh, wait.
Just think of how much it'll cost to hire the multiplex/demultiplexer's. Anyways, wouldn't an optic-al solution be more in the spirit of Sir Isaac Newton?
Anybody else not see the lack of logic here? MS has two crypto implementations? One for the OS, one for the API? Why the redundancy?
The logic is so obviously simple:
increased redundancy == increased failsafety
So, if one of the crypto API's has a security hole, the OS can rely on the backup API, just like how a bike with one flat tire can be ridden home on the remaining good tire.
I tell you, those MS guys really got some effective circumetry in their noggins!
Just put all of your findings in a U.S. citizenship application, then send it to the INS for processing. With what's going on at the INS right now, it'll take YEARS before that application ever sees the light of day again.
Java == glossy emo pop
Python == British novelty songs
LISP == modernist symphony
BASIC == music from a casio keyboard bought for $5 at a garage sale
"Buffer Overflow in C#"
According to a related story, the cellphones that people commonly use now are practically treated as disposables. I guess they're not out of their minds to create a phone that is at least recycleable.
I don't think that many people here have taken note of this, but crop circles are illegal. Crops are destroyed, property lost, and hence aliens, Disney, or whoever creates these things should be brought to justice for their crimes. So I could se a reason for Disney for not wanting to be associated with any crop circle hoaxes.
FYI, it's a "self-healing" article. Whenever the writer made a typo, the masssively parallel content management system dynamically replaced the mistyped word with a buzzword, making for one superintegrated synergistic media experience with meshed redundancy capabilities.
Even if this little tidbit of corporate lynch mobbery manages to get passed, would it even work?
DoS attacks work great if the targets are small, but attacking pirates on a P2P network will likely be analogous to punching a swarm of flies.
Actually, If I'm not mistaken, it was Play which had every song licensed for usage in commercials and soundtracks. If everyone had pirated Play rather than buying it, Moby and his label would still likely recoup their expenses and make a fat profit. I'd expect that if 18 was as good as Play, there's no reason why the same thing couldn't happen again.
I personally only buy CD's put out by smaller artists for two reasons:
1. I like to support indy artists, because they're the ones that need the money the most.
2. It's hard to find music from indy musicians on file-sharing networks.
So, that's my code of "piracy ethics". (sounds like a oxymoron, doesn't it?)
While I enjoy music, and I want to see it remain a part of our culture, I don't see why we need artists to be megastars and major labels to be money hoses for their shareholders for that to happen.
What Ever Happened to Fair Use!? OOOH-YeaaaH!
I'm not going to care about case security until somebody comes up with a badass-looking bug-zapper inspired case mod.
"Geeks!" she exclaimed, "...all they ever think about is hex!"
Someone just HAS to make funny karma-whoring quotes from that Simpson's episode every single freaking time there is any monorail-related article on slashdot.