Of course, considering that everyone employed by NASA makes rockets. When you call NASA about some NASA rockets, they design a rocket to pick up the phone, another rocket to direct your call, a smart rocket that rockets off to find the person you're trying to talk to, and another rocket to transport them to their desk, where they take the call.
Dear GOD! They're storing LITTLE PIECES OF INFORMATION that they can READ BACK TO THEMSELVES!!! It's completely clear how websites talking to themselves over mine is an obvious risk to my privacy.
Honestly, though. Turn off "Accept cookies from outside sites", use fake info where you need info (be nice, use random letters and a dot-mil on the email address, so "nowhere.com" doesn't get spammed into oblivion), and never give them anything they don't need. Violin! You have a stateful and consistent web experience, and "The Man" doesn't get your info.
So, in something similar to the forefiture laws for drug cases, they can thus sieze your underpants in all their criminality. Once they've applied this to everything you're wearing, they bust you for indecent exposure. Now you're on the Sex Offender registry, wearing a court-mandated RFID "tracker chip", and being constantly hounded by angry-mothers' groups with portable RFID scanner-readers. You can't get housing, you get turned away at establishments, and no one will sell you any more clothing, because they don't want the bad publicity of one of their clothing line becoming a convicted criminal.
How about a sight-sound-and-smell extravoganza... Just remove enough heatsinks and fans from the servers so it works, but will burst into a "smoke signal" indicator under heavier load.
Then again, you could just have a plain-telnet-or-http-or-something "control port" that asks "Which server, please?", then associates your IP for the duration.
Well, there's a handy little pain-in-the-ass to deal with. Hopefully they don't expand it to ftp URLs. It means my non-savvy friends will have to find an FTP client instead of just saving a link when I set up webspace.
They couldn't have just fixed the rendering problem and thrown up a dialog for u&ps with dots in them, no?
Plus, it could simply go in reverse. "Pay us a licensing fee (for some trivial thing), or we'll mount a lawsuit (that you can't afford to defend against) that will invalidate some of *your* patents."
Think of the pressure on VeriSign after their SiteFinder "innovation". If things get too hairy, someone (or some-ones, more likely) will come up with a new set of A-servers.
The only thing that makes them "A", is that they're where everyone looks first.
---- My war story? Sending some POKE's to an Atari something or other that turned all the text upside down. Yes I "broke" the computer. They didn't want me to show them how to "fix" it by turning the computer off and on again. But I won't bore you with that...
I thought you just had to flip the monitor over...
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Of course, considering that everyone employed by NASA makes rockets. When you call NASA about some NASA rockets, they design a rocket to pick up the phone, another rocket to direct your call, a smart rocket that rockets off to find the person you're trying to talk to, and another rocket to transport them to their desk, where they take the call.
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Recipient's name and personal
information shall be used for statistical purposes only.
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And how, exactly, would they use my name for "statistical purposes"?
"NASA Reports 18% of all Hardcore Geeks Named Bob, Robert, or Similar Variant"
See: Running an entire business as a loss-leader.
Dear GOD! They're storing LITTLE PIECES OF INFORMATION that they can READ BACK TO THEMSELVES!!! It's completely clear how websites talking to themselves over mine is an obvious risk to my privacy.
Honestly, though. Turn off "Accept cookies from outside sites", use fake info where you need info (be nice, use random letters and a dot-mil on the email address, so "nowhere.com" doesn't get spammed into oblivion), and never give them anything they don't need. Violin! You have a stateful and consistent web experience, and "The Man" doesn't get your info.
The Microsoft Mouse Protection Act?
What about the H.B. Legh Corporation, makers of the noted business growth and growth-business management software "HBLeghTek"?
So, in something similar to the forefiture laws for drug cases, they can thus sieze your underpants in all their criminality. Once they've applied this to everything you're wearing, they bust you for indecent exposure. Now you're on the Sex Offender registry, wearing a court-mandated RFID "tracker chip", and being constantly hounded by angry-mothers' groups with portable RFID scanner-readers. You can't get housing, you get turned away at establishments, and no one will sell you any more clothing, because they don't want the bad publicity of one of their clothing line becoming a convicted criminal.
This is your RFID future. Fear it.
How about a sight-sound-and-smell extravoganza... Just remove enough heatsinks and fans from the servers so it works, but will burst into a "smoke signal" indicator under heavier load.
Then again, you could just have a plain-telnet-or-http-or-something "control port" that asks "Which server, please?", then associates your IP for the duration.
Someone's still actually looking for deviantArt?
Then again, though, the case could be made that the actual music, not the code or the cap, is the prize.
Moooooom... Billy broke the Internet...
Well, there's a handy little pain-in-the-ass to deal with. Hopefully they don't expand it to ftp URLs. It means my non-savvy friends will have to find an FTP client instead of just saving a link when I set up webspace.
They couldn't have just fixed the rendering problem and thrown up a dialog for u&ps with dots in them, no?
Well... before you plug it in...
Right... somebody could come along and plug it back in.
Plus, it could simply go in reverse. "Pay us a licensing fee (for some trivial thing), or we'll mount a lawsuit (that you can't afford to defend against) that will invalidate some of *your* patents."
Which led to one of their first system sounds being called "Sosumi".
As long as the fruit company didn't go into the music business (Apple Records) or the computer business (Apple Computer).
Think of the pressure on VeriSign after their SiteFinder "innovation". If things get too hairy, someone (or some-ones, more likely) will come up with a new set of A-servers.
The only thing that makes them "A", is that they're where everyone looks first.
-- Responsilibity? what, someone to sue? HOW does that help?
By putting well-earned money into the pockets of lawyers and their clients.
What happens, though, if someone spams your product without your consent, just to get you "affected"?
---- My war story? Sending some POKE's to an Atari something or other that turned all the text upside down. Yes I "broke" the computer. They didn't want me to show them how to "fix" it by turning the computer off and on again. But I won't bore you with that...
I thought you just had to flip the monitor over...
Um... you realize they can investigate that hole, now, right?
Well, some really good 3D modeling and some really good texturing...
You mean they can use the Internet to find people on the Internet?
That's nuts!
On the contrary. You owe me royalties under my patent regarding:
A METHOD for claiming, describing, or citation of vague or specific methods for enacting processes to achieve results.