Honestly, who would steal an iMac? No SANE person, that's for sure. Stealing this iMac was a cry for help.
In the story, the cop went to the house to get the iMac, but the woman brought it outside, she wouldn't let him in. Surely you can see that its because the man in the house that let her out of the basement to answer the door would have gotten angry, and then bam, no cartoons for a week!
All you need to do is read between the lines here, and you'll see that I'm full of shit;)
A better idea; if the bios password entered was wrong, let the user in but have a tiny program chilling in the bios that would wait for a network connection and send out some data from there.
A few problems with this? Firewalls could easily stop it, although sending out the data on a common port like 80 would probably solve that. Also, just like a modem, a network card can be unplugged.
Ugh, this is starting to sound like an Outlook virus;)
I would just like to say that I have read about the proposed settlement, and I am not in favor of it in its current state. Please consider this a vote against the current settlement, as well as a vote to seek a settlement that is more favorable to Microsoft's competitors, yet unfavorable to Microsoft.
I hope the irony of using MS Hotmail to send this does not elude you.
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How hard was that? It does specifically what Mr. White asks, which is to submit a vote against the current settlement. It took 5 minutes. Heck, it took longer to write this comment than that.
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I was very impressed that the people who cheat at Counterstrike were finally going to be caught! (As opposed to those people who use Punkbuster, where the cheating may only be averted) I figured it's about time since the latest version of Half-Life features Opaque Walls (Finally!).
To think that I was wrong, this was about people cheating the people who wrote the program that caught cheaters! heh;)
Chizen said in the article that it can cost up to $750,000 to produce a Chinese-language version of a product, and extensive piracy makes it difficult for Adobe to recoup those costs.
That's like selling what, 10 copies of photoshop?;)
There are problems with your argument. First off, the well used "Horse and Buggy" analogy doesn't apply here. The Horse and Buggy was not an industry, and it did NOT have the money and power of Movie and Music industries behind it.
The movie and music business has made a great deal of money through the use (or misuse) of copyrights and the patent system. That money and power can and will be brought to bear to protect those things, whether we like it or not.
Death of the system? No, not for a very long time. Only the death of some of our freedom will result from this.
Hmm, considering that this is a website about Linux, and that most of the editors use ONLY Linux, how would they go about testing this? Under Wine? And if it gave an error, would that have been a Wine error, or an XBox emulation error?
The story was interesting, not because it was a hoax, but because it might NOT have been a hoax.
at WalMart and K-Mart, it's part of the $9.99 software. I know because I almost bought it again, even though I own all of the TA series (TA, TA:Core Contingency, TA:Kingdoms, and TA:K:Iron Plague), but I wouldn't mind keeping a copy in shrinkwrap just in case, the game is THAT fun.
IMO, the only reason TA isn't considered to be the BEST RTS game created is because it was overshadowed by a much more hyped and anticipated game, Starcraft.
Look Osama, I guess you got an internet connection in your cave thanks to the miracles of 802.11b, but how about this; the first time we USE Anthrax on someone, you can judge us. Until then, you're just another fanatic with a dumb name.
It isn't widely publicized, but a person known as Bruce Banner was involved in the development of the electron beam. During testing, he and the photographer that the Daily Bugle sent over to cover the event, Peter Parker, were caught inside the test chamber of the electron. Peter Parker also had the misfortune of having his pet spider with him at the time, which unfortunately did not survive being irradiated.
This can only lead us to one conclusion; Bruce Banner and Peter Parker are Batman and Robin.
What's to keep folk from sending the video output to a DV device, then reading it back and re-encoding it to whatever 'open' format they choose?
Right.
Even if you can't copy it using electronic means, the hardcore hackers that love the sitcom "Friends" could just watch the episode enough times so that they can just draw it out using Flash, and do all the dialog using their own voice. Heck, I know that my dainty baritone could be taken for Jennifer Anniston's voice anyday.
Heh, ok, maybe that's NOT such a good idea, but it would be funny;)
District or circuit court judges will be assigned for three-year terms and will be specially trained.
"Ok your honor, *this* is a mouse. Now click. Again.. Good. Now click again. Good. again. faster.. Good. Now, AGAIN! FASTER! CLICK! FASTER! FASTER! CLICK YOU BASTARD! FASTER! THOSE LAWYERS WILL MAKE A FOOL OUT OF YOUR COURTROOM IF YOU CAN'T CLICK FASTER THAN THAT!";)
First, they name the dolphin. Next, we get mandatory addons for MySQL that popup a cartoonish animation of the newly named dolphin everytime we click on something in the menu.
Then they're going to record some dolphin sounds, so everytime we do anything in MySQL, we get to hear "eeeeee-eEeeEeeEee eeeeeEEeeeee"
(popup)"Do you want to know about 'Primary Key'? eeEEEeeeeeeeee-eEEEEEeeeeeeE!"
Ahh heck, lets just call it Clippy. Hmm. Or maybe Tuna. Yeah.
Well, I remember when it was originally announced, and I read the article then too, but I didn't think to look in the contest rules for it. Thank you very much though.
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In the story, the cop went to the house to get the iMac, but the woman brought it outside, she wouldn't let him in. Surely you can see that its because the man in the house that let her out of the basement to answer the door would have gotten angry, and then bam, no cartoons for a week!
All you need to do is read between the lines here, and you'll see that I'm full of shit ;)
A few problems with this? Firewalls could easily stop it, although sending out the data on a common port like 80 would probably solve that. Also, just like a modem, a network card can be unplugged.
Ugh, this is starting to sound like an Outlook virus ;)
I sent this email from my Hotmail.com account ;)
How hard was that? It does specifically what Mr. White asks, which is to submit a vote against the current settlement. It took 5 minutes. Heck, it took longer to write this comment than that.
Now we know the real cost of Daikatana. It sucked so bad that the guy had to go and sell his Ferrari. heh.
I was very impressed that the people who cheat at Counterstrike were finally going to be caught! (As opposed to those people who use Punkbuster, where the cheating may only be averted) I figured it's about time since the latest version of Half-Life features Opaque Walls (Finally!).
To think that I was wrong, this was about people cheating the people who wrote the program that caught cheaters! heh ;)
We may never know.. ;)
That's like selling what, 10 copies of photoshop? ;)
The movie and music business has made a great deal of money through the use (or misuse) of copyrights and the patent system. That money and power can and will be brought to bear to protect those things, whether we like it or not.
Death of the system? No, not for a very long time. Only the death of some of our freedom will result from this.
Only 128MB ram? What is this, the Eighties?
Kind of strange that they do that and not filter Slashdot.
The story was interesting, not because it was a hoax, but because it might NOT have been a hoax.
for this need for bandwidth, just substitute the word "porn" each time you see the word "bandwidth" and you have your answer. heh.
IMO, the only reason TA isn't considered to be the BEST RTS game created is because it was overshadowed by a much more hyped and anticipated game, Starcraft.
Look Osama, I guess you got an internet connection in your cave thanks to the miracles of 802.11b, but how about this; the first time we USE Anthrax on someone, you can judge us. Until then, you're just another fanatic with a dumb name.
It isn't widely publicized, but a person known as Bruce Banner was involved in the development of the electron beam. During testing, he and the photographer that the Daily Bugle sent over to cover the event, Peter Parker, were caught inside the test chamber of the electron. Peter Parker also had the misfortune of having his pet spider with him at the time, which unfortunately did not survive being irradiated.
This can only lead us to one conclusion; Bruce Banner and Peter Parker are Batman and Robin.
There are other search engines out there besides google? ;)
Right.
Even if you can't copy it using electronic means, the hardcore hackers that love the sitcom "Friends" could just watch the episode enough times so that they can just draw it out using Flash, and do all the dialog using their own voice. Heck, I know that my dainty baritone could be taken for Jennifer Anniston's voice anyday.
Heh, ok, maybe that's NOT such a good idea, but it would be funny ;)
A related story found at the top right of the michigan cybercourt site can be found here.
Cut six judges so that one judge can basically test something new? Is that dumb or what?
"Ok your honor, *this* is a mouse. Now click. Again.. Good. Now click again. Good. again. faster.. Good. Now, AGAIN! FASTER! CLICK! FASTER! FASTER! CLICK YOU BASTARD! FASTER! THOSE LAWYERS WILL MAKE A FOOL OUT OF YOUR COURTROOM IF YOU CAN'T CLICK FASTER THAN THAT!" ;)
Then they're going to record some dolphin sounds, so everytime we do anything in MySQL, we get to hear "eeeeee-eEeeEeeEee eeeeeEEeeeee"
(popup)"Do you want to know about 'Primary Key'? eeEEEeeeeeeeee-eEEEEEeeeeeeE!"
Ahh heck, lets just call it Clippy. Hmm. Or maybe Tuna. Yeah.
Now, is this just a typing error, or is Sun *that* good? ;)
Me, I must've peaked early.
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Well, I remember when it was originally announced, and I read the article then too, but I didn't think to look in the contest rules for it. Thank you very much though.