What they are really saying is that they've already spoken with their legal team to find out what steps are needed to cover their asses in case of a backlash of re-percussive actions that can result. More lawyer mumbo-jumbo again.
I am loosing trust in all lawyers. They're dirty. Unclean. And unfortunately in many elected positions in government. No wonder my constitution has become so polluted...
With all the goings on in the media lately about the RIAA; would this not be the equivalent of the swimmer who is drowning, flailing about in a last ditch effort of rescue?? Maybe this is a sign that the end of this nonsense is eminent.
You really have to look deep into the advertising sometimes. Only a trained person willing to do the math on these would be able to see the differences. Clearly, these devices have a legitimate purpose and place, but at this point in time, its not in the client computer. The speeds need to come up to be really practical.
Now a good purpose for these might be in desktop bound short-stack storage arrays instead of that large tera-byte drive array. They're just quick enough for data retention backups off of the mechanical drives in the client PC.
Another use is small-scale server apps that usually are bound into hardware in some form of internet controllable appliance. Speed isn't really a major factor here for this and these would potentially work well.
Of one day looking up and really noticing that the available amounts of sunlight has been diminishing due to the rampant expansion of tracking and communications satellites being pushed into orbit by all the nations of the earth.
Then we begin to see the outcome as diminished crops, rampant expansion of the polar ice belts, strange drops in cancer rates from excessive sunlight exposure in bikini clad Caucasian women;... And some strange little guy on the global news service saying something about "the sky is falling; the sky is falling!"...
You are probably right on that point. I never participated on those machines back then mostly because I was focused on the business markets and aspects of the computer in those venues. Gaming was axillary at that point in my life. Games and Atari were almost synonymous at that time if memory serves me right.
I was digging through my garage some time back, and ran across a pile of old floppy disks that used to go to my old TRS-80 4 and 4p that I had years and years ago. A few times I thought about buying one of those that show up on Ebay from time to time...
But then I came to my senses.
This is the year 2008. Processors now have no issues going from 2.6ghz on up. Why on God's green earth, would I want to revert to a machine that ran at a few Megahertz and with 128k of RAM. Yea; that was "k"!!
Oh well; Fun find but if it were me, I don't think I'd spend any time on it.
I like that "IBM Deathstars"... I had some of those early ones with a lot of faults--especially getting quite hot enough to melt plastic surroundings when they get older than a year!! Hitachi's I've not had much issue with but the branded IBM's from Hitachi were a problem. Toshiba and Seagates that I've had were quite stellar. No problems at all with them.
I've gone through 3 drives now from them for 2 of my 3 laptops. The first one made it 10 months and technically was still under warranty. But because the manufacture date stamp on the drive was more than 12 months, they would not honor my warranty. Yea, I had the receipt but the guy in India was not concerned with that and would only take a credit card number to order another one at full retail price! Screw em'. Drilled a big bad hole through the thing and put in recycle bin.
Two other drives didn't even make it more than a month! First one died after a month and was sent off to them under warranty, and they send another of the exact same drive. It worked quite well up until last week when it just arbitrarily died on the spot when I got into the office.
Mind you my Toshiba's, and Seagate have been outlasting these things hands down. And for the naysayers; I know there is not an issue with the laptops since other vendor drives work quite well and last.
I don't even want to talk about the 3.5" drives! I have had more premature failures with these and I'm officially sworn off of Western Digital. All they make is junk.
Having seen these myself, you must still be on guard with these as they even may be phish's and you'd be logging into a proxy which is capturing keystrokes. I seem to remember seeing the email then not using the link, but instead opening the browser (Firefox) and www.paypal.com and go from there. Your http will be changed to https, etc., and you should be in the clear.
If you believe that, then you got to come over here and look at this piece of the Brooklyn Bridge that has this wonder full overlook of the river and I can let you have it for a song...
If Comcast were the last surviving ISP on the planet, I'd go back and totally focus on Ham radio. There is not enough money in the world that could get me back to Comcrap. The service was terrible, customer service even worse. They hire the most unskilled people to do the work and rely on a few people with skills as leads. They are so over priced for what you get it isn't funny.
Comcast can keep their so-called agreements. They need federal regulation big-time!!!
Fact is that OCR and many other applications use a fast Fourier transform algorithm to figure out the letters and even if it's hazed up a bit by softening, it can still be read with the right code.
I think I'm with many others in that you really need enforceable laws then you need to go after these perpetrators, then charge and convict them. The sentences need to be reasonably steep giving the costs they are adding to everyone else to handle their trash.
I need to get at that Hummer H1 again. They found oil in the US!!! This means I can afford to drive the Hummer again!!! Yea. 8mi to the gallon. Gas suddenly drops to under $1 per gallon US. Wow. I can hardly stand it...
You are correct sir! And; I agree that Google should not have been on this driveway that appears to want to be a street. I have to assume there was a human driver in the vehicle and he/she should have known not to go there. But from the pictures (Has anyone looked at them?) there was not any obvious signage at the entry to this which from the pictures, does have a curb and is not immediately obvious that it's a private drive.
I also agree about the pictures. However many on here feel that even the bird in the air is violating their privacy and should be disallowed.
All I was saying is that we ALL knew this was coming. It unfortunately is a private company and not the government like in books of old. Now if you don't want them taking the pictures top-down, it's going to take congressional legislation to make that illegal, and get them to remove it and all pictures that go with it. Then we have the CIA and FBI that might object to the abolishing of it.. This is liable to get quite messy in the long run legally.
That is true. But again when I looked at it, I did not see any signs. Turning around in the driveway to me was innocuous. I did not see it peer into doors or windows even though it was on private property. I do agree that this egregious and Google should know better.
But; what does one do about the bird in the air that is taking regularly scheduled shots through a high performance lens of yours and my property from the sky? How do we define privacy at that point? This is indeed something to be pressed before the supreme court I suspect. But this should have been done long ago because we did know this was coming. Nobody on here (except the kids) can deny that we didn't at least suspect it was inevitable.
Thats where I asked the question. If you don't want them on your driveway, post the sign. We knew the sky spy thing was coming years ago. If you didn't want this, ours, your parents, and they're parent's voting patterns should have been vastly different. So at this point in time, they can look at your property from straight down. I really have no issue with this. Maybe I lead a rather dull life as a rock musician (I really am: see:http://www.myspace.com/retrogroovin) and a network support engineer with 2 kids and a wife (I can't forget the cat too)... I really don't care about someone looking down.
I do draw the line someone coming up to and/or into my property with a camera and without my permission. All I'm saying is post sign-age. It helps a lot.
Did ya read the "entire" post? My intention is that who cares if Google maps my driveway that could have been a street. Trouble is that if I have an expectation of privacy, put up the damned signs indicating so. This way the Google vehicle moves on.
I mean really. Are you not aware that I can see that same damned trampoline from Google earth as well??? Given your address, we can look top-down at your property too.
If you have nothing to hide, then really what is the problem? We all knew this was coming. Its here now. What is everyone going to do? Try and legislate this out of existence for privacy sake?
I firmly believe that the line is crossed when they begin peering into your windows of your abode. At that point, it is an invasion of privacy. Unless there is a sign that is posted saying private drive, no trespass, then I don't think they really have a leg to stand on. More over; this still comes down to the basics of; "if you have nothing to hide, then what is the problem?"
If Barklay sets up this stuff and adheres to it, and I as a possible customer have an account there by which I physically pay my bills by cheque, but never by using any of the online services, and in fact never even initialize any of the access online, and someone accesses my account and rips me for all my funds, am I still responsible??
I think that deserves a look don't you? Language after all; is still legal and how you phrase your "terms of service" is how you either are forced to replenish the customers funds, or you get off Scott-Free and not face any repercussions.
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What they are really saying is that they've already spoken with their legal team to find out what steps are needed to cover their asses in case of a backlash of re-percussive actions that can result. More lawyer mumbo-jumbo again.
I am loosing trust in all lawyers. They're dirty. Unclean. And unfortunately in many elected positions in government. No wonder my constitution has become so polluted...
With all the goings on in the media lately about the RIAA; would this not be the equivalent of the swimmer who is drowning, flailing about in a last ditch effort of rescue?? Maybe this is a sign that the end of this nonsense is eminent.
You really have to look deep into the advertising sometimes. Only a trained person willing to do the math on these would be able to see the differences. Clearly, these devices have a legitimate purpose and place, but at this point in time, its not in the client computer. The speeds need to come up to be really practical.
Now a good purpose for these might be in desktop bound short-stack storage arrays instead of that large tera-byte drive array. They're just quick enough for data retention backups off of the mechanical drives in the client PC.
Another use is small-scale server apps that usually are bound into hardware in some form of internet controllable appliance. Speed isn't really a major factor here for this and these would potentially work well.
Just my opinion. Subject to change.
Of one day looking up and really noticing that the available amounts of sunlight has been diminishing due to the rampant expansion of tracking and communications satellites being pushed into orbit by all the nations of the earth.
Then we begin to see the outcome as diminished crops, rampant expansion of the polar ice belts, strange drops in cancer rates from excessive sunlight exposure in bikini clad Caucasian women;... And some strange little guy on the global news service saying something about "the sky is falling; the sky is falling!"...
You are probably right on that point. I never participated on those machines back then mostly because I was focused on the business markets and aspects of the computer in those venues. Gaming was axillary at that point in my life. Games and Atari were almost synonymous at that time if memory serves me right.
I was digging through my garage some time back, and ran across a pile of old floppy disks that used to go to my old TRS-80 4 and 4p that I had years and years ago. A few times I thought about buying one of those that show up on Ebay from time to time...
But then I came to my senses.
This is the year 2008. Processors now have no issues going from 2.6ghz on up. Why on God's green earth, would I want to revert to a machine that ran at a few Megahertz and with 128k of RAM. Yea; that was "k"!!
Oh well; Fun find but if it were me, I don't think I'd spend any time on it.
That was funny!!
I like that "IBM Deathstars"... I had some of those early ones with a lot of faults--especially getting quite hot enough to melt plastic surroundings when they get older than a year!! Hitachi's I've not had much issue with but the branded IBM's from Hitachi were a problem. Toshiba and Seagates that I've had were quite stellar. No problems at all with them.
I've gone through 3 drives now from them for 2 of my 3 laptops. The first one made it 10 months and technically was still under warranty. But because the manufacture date stamp on the drive was more than 12 months, they would not honor my warranty. Yea, I had the receipt but the guy in India was not concerned with that and would only take a credit card number to order another one at full retail price! Screw em'. Drilled a big bad hole through the thing and put in recycle bin.
Two other drives didn't even make it more than a month! First one died after a month and was sent off to them under warranty, and they send another of the exact same drive. It worked quite well up until last week when it just arbitrarily died on the spot when I got into the office.
Mind you my Toshiba's, and Seagate have been outlasting these things hands down. And for the naysayers; I know there is not an issue with the laptops since other vendor drives work quite well and last.
I don't even want to talk about the 3.5" drives! I have had more premature failures with these and I'm officially sworn off of Western Digital. All they make is junk.
Having seen these myself, you must still be on guard with these as they even may be phish's and you'd be logging into a proxy which is capturing keystrokes. I seem to remember seeing the email then not using the link, but instead opening the browser (Firefox) and www.paypal.com and go from there. Your http will be changed to https, etc., and you should be in the clear.
If you believe that, then you got to come over here and look at this piece of the Brooklyn Bridge that has this wonder full overlook of the river and I can let you have it for a song...
If Comcast were the last surviving ISP on the planet, I'd go back and totally focus on Ham radio. There is not enough money in the world that could get me back to Comcrap. The service was terrible, customer service even worse. They hire the most unskilled people to do the work and rely on a few people with skills as leads. They are so over priced for what you get it isn't funny.
Comcast can keep their so-called agreements. They need federal regulation big-time!!!
I don't know if I quite buy that either.
Fact is that OCR and many other applications use a fast Fourier transform algorithm to figure out the letters and even if it's hazed up a bit by softening, it can still be read with the right code.
I think I'm with many others in that you really need enforceable laws then you need to go after these perpetrators, then charge and convict them. The sentences need to be reasonably steep giving the costs they are adding to everyone else to handle their trash.
(Australian maids person sounding voice)
Aayhya Mister;
A simple sponge-bath ought' a clean ya right up there...
There ya are;
Fresh as a bloomin' daisy yea are!
5 Billion instructions per second.. Now; thinking back to my assembly language menomics, some instructions used less T states than did others.
So; is this 5 billion instructions per second an average?, or is this using one of the shortest instructions such as NOP, or LD???
(grin) Just curious.
(And yea; I expect to get the standard flaming about "who does assembly language anymore!!?")
Cool and would this not be a thing where one could sing;
Slam-a-lan-a-ding-dong
on their lawyers for stooping to this level.
These people really believe that the law is for everyone else except them.
I need to get at that Hummer H1 again. They found oil in the US!!! This means I can afford to drive the Hummer again!!! Yea. 8mi to the gallon. Gas suddenly drops to under $1 per gallon US. Wow. I can hardly stand it...
Yea right. (Pessimistic look on face)
You are correct sir! And; I agree that Google should not have been on this driveway that appears to want to be a street. I have to assume there was a human driver in the vehicle and he/she should have known not to go there. But from the pictures (Has anyone looked at them?) there was not any obvious signage at the entry to this which from the pictures, does have a curb and is not immediately obvious that it's a private drive.
I also agree about the pictures. However many on here feel that even the bird in the air is violating their privacy and should be disallowed.
All I was saying is that we ALL knew this was coming. It unfortunately is a private company and not the government like in books of old. Now if you don't want them taking the pictures top-down, it's going to take congressional legislation to make that illegal, and get them to remove it and all pictures that go with it. Then we have the CIA and FBI that might object to the abolishing of it.. This is liable to get quite messy in the long run legally.
I agree. I completely agree.
But where was the sign? I didn't see one in the shots the camera took when mapping it.
That is true. But again when I looked at it, I did not see any signs. Turning around in the driveway to me was innocuous. I did not see it peer into doors or windows even though it was on private property. I do agree that this egregious and Google should know better.
But; what does one do about the bird in the air that is taking regularly scheduled shots through a high performance lens of yours and my property from the sky? How do we define privacy at that point? This is indeed something to be pressed before the supreme court I suspect. But this should have been done long ago because we did know this was coming. Nobody on here (except the kids) can deny that we didn't at least suspect it was inevitable.
Thats where I asked the question. If you don't want them on your driveway, post the sign. We knew the sky spy thing was coming years ago. If you didn't want this, ours, your parents, and they're parent's voting patterns should have been vastly different. So at this point in time, they can look at your property from straight down. I really have no issue with this. Maybe I lead a rather dull life as a rock musician (I really am: see:http://www.myspace.com/retrogroovin) and a network support engineer with 2 kids and a wife (I can't forget the cat too)... I really don't care about someone looking down.
I do draw the line someone coming up to and/or into my property with a camera and without my permission. All I'm saying is post sign-age. It helps a lot.
Then in reality; what you are consequently saying is;
"While you are crossing paths with my personal property, you must close your eyes and plug your ears. This is to protect my privacy."
Is that about it?
Me thinks this is turning into a contextually sensitive issue. We're in different contexts.
Did ya read the "entire" post? My intention is that who cares if Google maps my driveway that could have been a street. Trouble is that if I have an expectation of privacy, put up the damned signs indicating so. This way the Google vehicle moves on.
I mean really. Are you not aware that I can see that same damned trampoline from Google earth as well??? Given your address, we can look top-down at your property too.
If you have nothing to hide, then really what is the problem? We all knew this was coming. Its here now. What is everyone going to do? Try and legislate this out of existence for privacy sake?
I firmly believe that the line is crossed when they begin peering into your windows of your abode. At that point, it is an invasion of privacy. Unless there is a sign that is posted saying private drive, no trespass, then I don't think they really have a leg to stand on. More over; this still comes down to the basics of; "if you have nothing to hide, then what is the problem?"
If Barklay sets up this stuff and adheres to it, and I as a possible customer have an account there by which I physically pay my bills by cheque, but never by using any of the online services, and in fact never even initialize any of the access online, and someone accesses my account and rips me for all my funds, am I still responsible??
I think that deserves a look don't you? Language after all; is still legal and how you phrase your "terms of service" is how you either are forced to replenish the customers funds, or you get off Scott-Free and not face any repercussions.
Just a thought...