If this were to end up working by some miracle, it could set a very bad precedent in the world of television. What TV exec wouldn't jump at the chance to save $50million+ on production when they could get that money simply by cancelling a popular show and having the fans react by offering to pay for another season?
Obviously it wouldn't happen often, because nobody has that kind of money to be throwing around for all of their favourite shows, but still.
my new subdivision is on the map whereas it's absent on all the other free map services
The data that they are using doesn't seem to be up-to-date for Canada. Near where I live, a road has been extended and a new high school built 2 or 3 years ago, but none of that is shown. Neither is a major park where I have been playing baseball for the past 5 years.
if you install divx codecs from within a codec pack it will not install the spyware
Hold on a second, you don't need to install DivX from a codec pack, you can use the DivX installer just fine and it will not install any spyware if you install the free codec (not the ad-supported Pro version). Get the spyware-free (as it's always been) version here
Also, a lot of those codec packs are trouble themselves in other ways. Avoid them if you can.
...kind of secretly hope that the record companies win this one, just so I don't have to listen to the ringtones:) Most of the 'music' ones (especially using MIDI) are just horrible, and once people start making them more frequently on their own, expect the quality to get even worse, just like good ol' mp3s.
Yup, I'm sure this "technology" is as much as "success" as SiteFinder.
"We removed all negative feedback and all we were left with were three glowingly positive emails! They were from upper management, but who's keeping score anyway..."
If you can't believe the people who are implementing an idea in order to make money to be honest about their success, then who can you trust? yeesh.
Precursor nothing, this is apparently already happening...
From one of the links: I did some investigating on my own computer and discovered that HP has also been shipping currency anti-copying software in their printer drives since at least the summer of 2002. I have an HP 130 photo printer and found the string "http://www.rulesforuse.org" embedded in the driver.
According to a few newsgroup messages posted in 2002 and 2003, folks are seeing this URL printed out when they attempt to print images of certain types of bills. An HP printer with this anti-copying technology only prints out an inch of a currency image before aborting the print job.
There are people in Federal prison for writing bad checks, failing to divulge person interests when pushing investments, heck, they even threw in a teenager who burned down a boathouse that happened to contain Bush the first's boat engine in storage (that made it a Federal crime !)
I don't think any of those things are right either. Yes, the so-called 'white-collar' criminals definitely need to be punished. Prison is right for these people (hang on, I'm not changing my opinion here...) but not freakin' Oz. They need to be incarcerated in a low-security facility that removes their societal rights because they broke the law.
However, 'low-security' has come to mean 'country club' in the penal system, which isn't right either. Those facililties should be just as restrictive, rights-wise, as maximum-security prisons, but for non-violent offenders. White-collar criminals are hardly a menace to one another, but if you throw a bad-cheque writer in with Bruno the neo-Nazi maddog, somebody is getting assaulted, and I think you can figure out who.
To further expand my fantasy justice system... if these white-collar criminals do become violent and a menace to others, then they get an automatic upgrade to a higher-security facility if they are unable to restrain themselves in low-security.
As much fun as it is to vent and say "death to spammers" or even "one year in prison for every 100 spammed addresses", we have to be realistic. Prison is for hardcore criminals... eg: murderers, rapists, etc. and not for someone like spammers.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, and would surely love to vent my fury on those doing the spamming. However, and this opinion probably won't be popular with the/. crowd, federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison is not the answer here. I'm not sure what the answer is, but that isn't it.
For those of you who have never seen "Saving Private Ryan" or "Band of Brothers", I recommend them.
I am in 100% agreement with this statement. I'll go one further and state that it is my firm belief that Band Of Brothers should be mandatory viewing in every school across the WW2-allied countries.
The mini-series may only depict American soldiers, but what they did in that war was representative of every nation involved. Those men deserve all the recognition they can get for the massive sacrifices that had to be made.
"...indeed no one at all, has been murdered by a VCR..."
No? http://hometheater.about.com/b/a/028378.htm
That doesn't count. If someone packed you with explosives against your will and you exploded, killing 3 people, I wouldn't call you a murderer either.:)
I think that I'm failing to see the problem here... if a student does not submit their essay to this site to be plagarism-checked, what is stopping the professors from submitting it themselves if they believe that there has been plagarism, and achieving the same thing? It isn't about money, because the article mentioned that this occurred during McGill's "free trial" period with the service. Is it a copyright thing?
"Revenge of the Jedi"... Episode 6 in the Star Wars saga, has just finished filming, according to some friends I have down in Arizona.
The release date for us humans that want to see it is still the summer of 1983. I guess it takes that long to score all the music, do all the film-editing, prepare all the promo material, and all that junk.
I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster. I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars series.
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If this were to end up working by some miracle, it could set a very bad precedent in the world of television. What TV exec wouldn't jump at the chance to save $50million+ on production when they could get that money simply by cancelling a popular show and having the fans react by offering to pay for another season?
Obviously it wouldn't happen often, because nobody has that kind of money to be throwing around for all of their favourite shows, but still.
- Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church In Canada
- St Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church
- Customers For Life Inc
- Brantford Public Library
- Children's Aid Society of Haldimand-Norfolk
- Oxford Self-Help Network
Google teaches us so many things!I do love the interface though!
Forget 10Gbit to the home by 2010, I'd be happy with 10Mbit to my home now.
Hold on a second, you don't need to install DivX from a codec pack, you can use the DivX installer just fine and it will not install any spyware if you install the free codec (not the ad-supported Pro version). Get the spyware-free (as it's always been) version here
Also, a lot of those codec packs are trouble themselves in other ways. Avoid them if you can.
Or entirely not like that at all.
...kind of secretly hope that the record companies win this one, just so I don't have to listen to the ringtones :) Most of the 'music' ones (especially using MIDI) are just horrible, and once people start making them more frequently on their own, expect the quality to get even worse, just like good ol' mp3s.
Yup, I'm sure this "technology" is as much as "success" as SiteFinder.
"We removed all negative feedback and all we were left with were three glowingly positive emails! They were from upper management, but who's keeping score anyway..."
If you can't believe the people who are implementing an idea in order to make money to be honest about their success, then who can you trust? yeesh.
The answer, my friend, lies with today's Penny Arcade comic...
Let him age, and he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Hasn't the tragedy of Tupac and Biggie taught the world anything? Eastside vs. Westside accomplishes nothing, homies!
Peace out!
Word...
Precursor nothing, this is apparently already happening...
From one of the links: I did some investigating on my own computer and discovered that HP has also been shipping currency anti-copying software in their printer drives since at least the summer of 2002. I have an HP 130 photo printer and found the string "http://www.rulesforuse.org" embedded in the driver.
According to a few newsgroup messages posted in 2002 and 2003, folks are seeing this URL printed out when they attempt to print images of certain types of bills. An HP printer with this anti-copying technology only prints out an inch of a currency image before aborting the print job.
I don't think any of those things are right either. Yes, the so-called 'white-collar' criminals definitely need to be punished. Prison is right for these people (hang on, I'm not changing my opinion here...) but not freakin' Oz. They need to be incarcerated in a low-security facility that removes their societal rights because they broke the law.
However, 'low-security' has come to mean 'country club' in the penal system, which isn't right either. Those facililties should be just as restrictive, rights-wise, as maximum-security prisons, but for non-violent offenders. White-collar criminals are hardly a menace to one another, but if you throw a bad-cheque writer in with Bruno the neo-Nazi maddog, somebody is getting assaulted, and I think you can figure out who.
To further expand my fantasy justice system... if these white-collar criminals do become violent and a menace to others, then they get an automatic upgrade to a higher-security facility if they are unable to restrain themselves in low-security.
As much fun as it is to vent and say "death to spammers" or even "one year in prison for every 100 spammed addresses", we have to be realistic. Prison is for hardcore criminals... eg: murderers, rapists, etc. and not for someone like spammers.
/. crowd, federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison is not the answer here. I'm not sure what the answer is, but that isn't it.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, and would surely love to vent my fury on those doing the spamming. However, and this opinion probably won't be popular with the
I am in 100% agreement with this statement. I'll go one further and state that it is my firm belief that Band Of Brothers should be mandatory viewing in every school across the WW2-allied countries.
The mini-series may only depict American soldiers, but what they did in that war was representative of every nation involved. Those men deserve all the recognition they can get for the massive sacrifices that had to be made.
That doesn't count. If someone packed you with explosives against your will and you exploded, killing 3 people, I wouldn't call you a murderer either.
And to this day, not a single American film producer, indeed no one at all, has been murdered by a VCR, ala the Boston Strangler.
If you're not familiar with the quote...
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." - Jack Valenti
Fastest. Slashdotting. Ever.
(put your pants back on, nerds!)
I think that I'm failing to see the problem here... if a student does not submit their essay to this site to be plagarism-checked, what is stopping the professors from submitting it themselves if they believe that there has been plagarism, and achieving the same thing? It isn't about money, because the article mentioned that this occurred during McGill's "free trial" period with the service. Is it a copyright thing?
Yeah, me neither...
"So then where are your pants??"