Hollywood aside, technology's there to fool it, depending how sophisticated and corrupt said police force wants to be. But I can't see a your ordinary Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane with a limited budget to have the ability to produce and sustain fraud on the order of the Cyprus Recordings.
Supposing I quote two lines of a lyric, is that allowed? What if I quote a verse? Where does something become a breach of copyright? Can I have a whole song with a couple of incorrect words or could it be a three word phrase that is recognisably from a given song?
'Fair use' doctrine should kick in here, provided you give the proper copryright information and attribution.
* Public Domain; * Tried to find out who owned the song, failed; * Found out who owned the song, tried to permission to use the lyric, failed to get a response; * Found out who owned the song, tried to permission to use the lyric, got permission from one source; * Found out who owned the song, tried to permission to use the lyric, permission denied, used anyway.
Besides the fact that it runs in the family Maggie Gyllenhaal was amazing in Secretary.
Maggie is also the matchmaker to put Kirsten and Jake together on the semi-fasttrack down the aisle, which may have helped Jake's standing in getting the Spiderman role.
(Believe it or not, I was pondering it on the loo/john just now, before heading back to my station. And yes, I washed my hands.)
I'd tend to view common-use keyboards in toilets the same as gas station restrooms. Do your business, but don't let any part of your body touch anything if you can help it.
But if your at home with a wi-fi and a portable laptop (with, say, a hamper to rest the laptop), then I consider it the 21st-Century equivalent of taking the newspaper in the morning.
Just, um, disinfect the keyboard after you're done.
Before the first slew of early morning cartoon, but right after fadeout of the test pattern and the National Anthem sign-on (with Air Force jets) came AgDay, the nationally syndicated program for that *other* Oh-Dark AM Early Riser Demographic -- the Farmer. To this city boy, it was a bit fascinating to see how the rural folk live.
These days, I wake up with AgDay only as a companion as I flip to get reports on the early morning commute to work.
But a seemingly innocuous thing such as a routine Microsoft maintenance patch should be a no-brainer, right? Wrong, as I had found out.
The slow-Outlook problem I described is purely a Microsoft issue; but the patch could just as easily have had something in it that would gum up the multimillion-dollar custom-designed software package that the IT guy's department had spent the previous 18 months designing, installing and tweaking in the corporation where he works.
I can understand being slow *and careful* when upgrading service packs (Hello, Win2K SP3 and Automatic Update Feature!), but hesistating on Security Patches because of 'custom designed software' is foolish.
Does that 'custom designed software' open my users and/or network to known vunerabilities just to work? And why would _I_ install software on _my_ system and downgrade the security of my system? Shouldn't it be up to the SW company to provide security on its own?
Critical patches are paramount on the system I work on, regardless. What was the last mainstream 'Oh My God! Your system is open to attack' news item -- on a M$ vunerability that had a ptach available three years ago??
Unless the SW company stood behind the security of *its* software for *its* customers (or correct the code in the first place), then they would _not_ have me or any of my users as customers.
On our honeymoon, we decided to watch the sun go down, because it's supposedly romantic. We sat down on the bench, facing the ocean, and... talked about what OS we'd prefer on our desktop machines, which 1u rackmount server we should buy, and how icky the slug was that was sliding down the railing in front of us.
Oh my. Such mp3-ripping geek pr0n. Someone get me a heatsync to cool down.
Created by Harold Cohen, AARON was the first robot programmed to follow certain artistic heuristics in creating unique drawings.
It was a permanent exhibit in the Robots Gallery at The Computer Museum in Boston before most of the Permanent Collection for the TCM went to California and the rest was acquired by the Museum of Science in 1999.
I just moved to a new high school and was wondering the easiest way for the principal to round up 'the usual suspects' after any incident of school violence within 25 miles.
To be a Licensed London Black Cab the vehicle needs to be able to do some extreme things that a normal car can't do - such as do a U-turn in about a 20-foot circle. That is why all the 'Black' Cabs in London are not based on normal cars. Black Cab drivers also need to pass 'The Knowledge'
'The Knowledge' was featured in an amusing BritWit Movie shown in the States once in the 80's as part of the 'Mobil Summer Showcase' syndicated series. (Available on Region 2 DVD only)
If the Romulans have a ship twice the length and about 10x the mass of the biggest Federation ships, then how come the Romulans are also-rans to the Federation?
Now, the latest attempt to fight piracy will be to show the movie with a particular flicker, imperceptible to the viewer in the theater, but making any video recording unwatchable.
But Hollywood already makes too many unwatchable movies!
The ACLU is too busy making sure no schoolchildren do anything to celebrate Christmas, and persecuting anyone who believes in a Christian god. They haven't said boo shit about PATRIOT, and it's doubtful they ever will.
There's also HfNetChk 3.86, which allows command-line analysis:
HFNetChk.exe is the multi-threaded command-line tool you can use to assess a computer or selected group of computers for the absence of security patches. You can use HFNetChk to assess patch status for the Windows NT 4.0, WIndows NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000, Windows XP operating systems, as well as hotfixes and service packs for IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000 (including MSDE), Exchange Server 5.5, Exchange Server 2000, Windows Media Player, Front Page Server Extensions, Microsoft Java Virtual Machine, Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), and Internet Explorer 5.01 or later.
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Lojack For Humans.
The cool part is with 5 channel audio, when they bust a skull with a night stick, it will sound JUST like they are in your living room!
Wait! They are in my living room!
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! stupid homeland security Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
Imagine a Rodney King scenario, but since the cops have it on digital video they could "edit in" some attack footage before the beating starts.
Like the Butcher of Bakersfield?
Hollywood aside, technology's there to fool it, depending how sophisticated and corrupt said police force wants to be. But I can't see a your ordinary Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane with a limited budget to have the ability to produce and sustain fraud on the order of the Cyprus Recordings.
Supposing I quote two lines of a lyric, is that allowed? What if I quote a verse? Where does something become a breach of copyright? Can I have a whole song with a couple of incorrect words or could it be a three word phrase that is recognisably from a given song?
'Fair use' doctrine should kick in here, provided you give the proper copryright information and attribution.
Interesting note: Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs breaks down the copyright attribitions into:
* Public Domain;
* Tried to find out who owned the song, failed;
* Found out who owned the song, tried to permission to use the lyric, failed to get a response;
* Found out who owned the song, tried to permission to use the lyric, got permission from one source;
* Found out who owned the song, tried to permission to use the lyric, permission denied, used anyway.
Besides the fact that it runs in the family Maggie Gyllenhaal was amazing in Secretary.
Maggie is also the matchmaker to put Kirsten and Jake together on the semi-fasttrack down the aisle, which may have helped Jake's standing in getting the Spiderman role.
(Believe it or not, I was pondering it on the loo/john just now, before heading back to my station. And yes, I washed my hands.)
I'd tend to view common-use keyboards in toilets the same as gas station restrooms. Do your business, but don't let any part of your body touch anything if you can help it.
But if your at home with a wi-fi and a portable laptop (with, say, a hamper to rest the laptop), then I consider it the 21st-Century equivalent of taking the newspaper in the morning.
Just, um, disinfect the keyboard after you're done.
Before the first slew of early morning cartoon, but right after fadeout of the test pattern and the National Anthem sign-on (with Air Force jets) came AgDay, the nationally syndicated program for that *other* Oh-Dark AM Early Riser Demographic -- the Farmer. To this city boy, it was a bit fascinating to see how the rural folk live.
These days, I wake up with AgDay only as a companion as I flip to get reports on the early morning commute to work.
But a seemingly innocuous thing such as a routine Microsoft maintenance patch should be a no-brainer, right? Wrong, as I had found out.
The slow-Outlook problem I described is purely a Microsoft issue; but the patch could just as easily have had something in it that would gum up the multimillion-dollar custom-designed software package that the IT guy's department had spent the previous 18 months designing, installing and tweaking in the corporation where he works.
I can understand being slow *and careful* when upgrading service packs (Hello, Win2K SP3 and Automatic Update Feature!), but hesistating on Security Patches because of 'custom designed software' is foolish.
Does that 'custom designed software' open my users and/or network to known vunerabilities just to work? And why would _I_ install software on _my_ system and downgrade the security of my system? Shouldn't it be up to the SW company to provide security on its own?
Critical patches are paramount on the system I work on, regardless. What was the last mainstream 'Oh My God! Your system is open to attack' news item -- on a M$ vunerability that had a ptach available three years ago??
Unless the SW company stood behind the security of *its* software for *its* customers (or correct the code in the first place), then they would _not_ have me or any of my users as customers.
On our honeymoon, we decided to watch the sun go down, because it's supposedly romantic. We sat down on the bench, facing the ocean, and ... talked about what OS we'd prefer on our desktop machines, which 1u rackmount server we should buy, and how icky the slug was that was sliding down the railing in front of us.
Oh my. Such mp3-ripping geek pr0n. Someone get me a heatsync to cool down.
*wink*
Created by Harold Cohen, AARON was the first robot programmed to follow certain artistic heuristics in creating unique drawings.
It was a permanent exhibit in the Robots Gallery at The Computer Museum in Boston before most of the Permanent Collection for the TCM went to California and the rest was acquired by the Museum of Science in 1999.
First Dick Tracy Reference Post!
I just moved to a new high school and was wondering the easiest way for the principal to round up 'the usual suspects' after any incident of school violence within 25 miles.
To be a Licensed London Black Cab the vehicle needs to be able to do some extreme things that a normal car can't do - such as do a U-turn in about a 20-foot circle. That is why all the 'Black' Cabs in London are not based on normal cars. Black Cab drivers also need to pass 'The Knowledge'
'The Knowledge' was featured in an amusing BritWit Movie shown in the States once in the 80's as part of the 'Mobil Summer Showcase' syndicated series. (Available on Region 2 DVD only)
If the Romulans have a ship twice the length and about 10x the mass of the biggest Federation ships, then how come the Romulans are also-rans to the Federation?
[Yoda]
Size matters not....
[/Yoda]
They're writing a copyright law for a country that needs clean water and food? give us a break.
That's Evian© Clean Water(TM) and Nabisco© Food(TM).
Please remit royalty within 24 hours.
Since the Jedi 'faith' has English origins, I've taken it to be another branch of the Anglican Communion.
I'm going to donate $20. I want to see each one of you who posted a msg here saying "Wahoo" donate at least $20.
* "Oohaw! - now you owe me $20!"
* "I'm a Native American, you insensitive clod!"
I didn't know Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf was a fan of P. D. James.
I didn't know Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf was a fan of JMS.
But there's the annual 'two-hour forty-minute padded to almost five hours' showing every springtime. And how 'bout those SFX of the Red Sea....?
And for the non-Hollywood version....
News By Computer Foils Kidnappers: Alec and Shanna invoke an AMBER Alert some twenty-plus years before its time.
Also, check out the 'portable' RS Cellular Phone.
(PS - apologies to those who lost Mod points... saw this after the fact...)
Now, the latest attempt to fight piracy will be to show the movie with a particular flicker, imperceptible to the viewer in the theater, but making any video recording unwatchable.
But Hollywood already makes too many unwatchable movies!
The ACLU is too busy making sure no schoolchildren do anything to celebrate Christmas, and persecuting anyone who believes in a Christian god. They haven't said boo shit about PATRIOT, and it's doubtful they ever will.
boo shit, for a start.
Search on the word, 'patriot'.
There's also HfNetChk 3.86, which allows command-line analysis:
HFNetChk.exe is the multi-threaded command-line tool you can use to assess a computer or selected group of computers for the absence of security patches. You can use HFNetChk to assess patch status for the Windows NT 4.0, WIndows NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000, Windows XP operating systems, as well as hotfixes and service packs for IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000 (including MSDE), Exchange Server 5.5, Exchange Server 2000, Windows Media Player, Front Page Server Extensions, Microsoft Java Virtual Machine, Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), and Internet Explorer 5.01 or later.
HFNetChkLt from Shavlik will identify more vunerabilities, and its engine is updated more often than M$' MBSA.