Adobe's lawyers will point to the Terms of Use (https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html) that he agreed to before using the software, and that will be that.
9.2 We specifically disclaim all liability for any actions resulting from your use of any Services or Software. You may use and access the Services or Software at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the use of and access to any Service or Software.
We agree with you 100% that market forces are the best way to prevent bad behavior. Accordingly, we will instruct each city and state that grants one of your member companies a cable franchise to open up those franchises to any company desiring to provide internet service. Once every household in the country has a minimum of 4 different ISPs to choose from, we can discuss the state-level regulations mentioned in your letter.
All these posts, and I haven't seen anyone point out this tiny little detail, including the OP -
The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials Phil Mudd and Willie T. Hulon, according to well-informed sources, the project didn't last long. It was torpedoed by the head of the FBI's criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous -- and possibly illegal.
Much more fun to just bash the government than actually find out the facts, eh?
"Unlike corporations such as IBM - with revenues of $22 billion in the first quarter of 2007 alone - our schools do not have the ability to generate new dollars to fund projects or pay for employees," the lawmakers wrote. "Our schools rely solely on limited state and federal assistance to educate our students and every dollar is precious."
Oh really? It sure feels like our local school district (in CA) is generating new dollars every single time an election rolls around with yet another round of school bond measures. Perhaps the bondholders can be pressured into following IBM's plan - 15-year interest-free loans - so my property taxes can go back down.
What happens when they're both using electronic devices at the time of the accident? A driver yakking on his cell phone mows down a jaywalker jamming out on his iPod.
There are cars out there that have that ability today, and you don't even need special equipment to listen to the "music" (usually rap, for some reason) these other drivers choose to share. Just pull up next to them at a stoplight, and listen to your heart's content.
I'd be far more interested in technology that could prevent the guy next to me from playing his music so loud you can hear in the next zip code.
...this "Lead Developer" at IBM will discover the wonderful performance benefits of pooling database connections, rather than open a new connection every single fricking time he hits the database. No wonder he saw a massive performance increase when he learned how to cache the lookup values.
And what's up with the "obj_" prefixes in some of the code listings? Newsflash: Java is an object-oriented programming language, and most competent Java programmers can figure out that a variable called resultSet probably isn't a primitive. You don't need to waste another 4 characters pointing out that fact.
Take off your tinfoil hats for a second and actually use that gray matter between your ears...
The slippery slope argument boils down to one statement - "today they block kiddie porn, tomorrow they block everything else they disagree with". But is this a valid argument?
To get the answer, ask yourself one simple question - has the censorship of kiddie porn in Real Life led to the dire restrictions on other free speech rights being predicted by the doom and gloom crowd here at/.? If censoring kiddie porn in hasn't led to other restrictions on free speech in Real Life, why would you think the end result would be any different in cyberspace?
Just set up a thing where you contact your computer directly or via cellphone to prevent it from doing its stuff. In the event of your death your data goes to where it should.
In the event of your death, or your three-day weekend in the mountains (out of cell-phone range), that is...
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Adobe's lawyers will point to the Terms of Use (https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html) that he agreed to before using the software, and that will be that.
9.2 We specifically disclaim all liability for any actions resulting from your use of any Services or Software. You may use and access the Services or Software at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the use of and access to any Service or Software.
Dear NCTA,
We agree with you 100% that market forces are the best way to prevent bad behavior. Accordingly, we will instruct each city and state that grants one of your member companies a cable franchise to open up those franchises to any company desiring to provide internet service. Once every household in the country has a minimum of 4 different ISPs to choose from, we can discuss the state-level regulations mentioned in your letter.
Sincerely,
The FTC
Much more fun to just bash the government than actually find out the facts, eh?
"Unlike corporations such as IBM - with revenues of $22 billion in the first quarter of 2007 alone - our schools do not have the ability to generate new dollars to fund projects or pay for employees," the lawmakers wrote. "Our schools rely solely on limited state and federal assistance to educate our students and every dollar is precious."
Oh really? It sure feels like our local school district (in CA) is generating new dollars every single time an election rolls around with yet another round of school bond measures. Perhaps the bondholders can be pressured into following IBM's plan - 15-year interest-free loans - so my property taxes can go back down.
In the scrolling text at the beginning of the video -
"Imagine the worse smell"
"Multiply by 100"
"And your close"
"to the smell of her class"
This "model student" must have been absent the day they discussed "worse" vs. "worst" and "your" vs. "you're".
What happens when they're both using electronic devices at the time of the accident? A driver yakking on his cell phone mows down a jaywalker jamming out on his iPod.
Who's at fault?
It's all Bush's fault!!
It's not bad enough that he has to screw up one planet's climate, now he's messing with Mars! If only he had signed that Kyoto treaty...
Just post a link to this server of his - we'll gladly stress-test it for him at no charge. :)
I'll still wait for the official Snopes lowdown on this one...
(How could he have gone through his day like that without touching anything metal, like a doorknob or his car door?)
Unless dad had the wisdom to show him the original Episode IV, he'll grow up forever thinking that Greedo fired first.
The path to the dark side revising history is, George...
One word: Perl
There are cars out there that have that ability today, and you don't even need special equipment to listen to the "music" (usually rap, for some reason) these other drivers choose to share. Just pull up next to them at a stoplight, and listen to your heart's content.
I'd be far more interested in technology that could prevent the guy next to me from playing his music so loud you can hear in the next zip code.
...but alas, I had already taken the blue pill.
...this "Lead Developer" at IBM will discover the wonderful performance benefits of pooling database connections, rather than open a new connection every single fricking time he hits the database. No wonder he saw a massive performance increase when he learned how to cache the lookup values.
And what's up with the "obj_" prefixes in some of the code listings? Newsflash: Java is an object-oriented programming language, and most competent Java programmers can figure out that a variable called resultSet probably isn't a primitive. You don't need to waste another 4 characters pointing out that fact.
One secret, untappable method for my world takeover, I mean, world communication plan!
Hey! Taking over the world was my idea first! In fact, it's what I do for nightly entertainment...
Check the man page for cp, etc., and you'll see what I mean.
I CAN'T "check the man page for cp" for another 8 days, you insensitive clod!!
Just sign the contract with disappearing ink. A few months down the road - no more problem.
April Fool's day was next month...
I just gave all my money to some guy named Seth - he promised to give to the Thunderbird developers...
Well, that and the fact that I don't actually use FreeBSD.
So, to check a Hotmail message, I just need to manually type
g ?m sg=MSG1103631600.24&start=3248752&len=4735&imgsafe =n&curmbox=F000000001&a=b2cbfd3baddabfc913aacc3f36 f8590f
http://by2fd.bay2.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getms
in my address bar....
Thanks, Microsoft! I needed to brush up on my typing skills.
He went to work for SCO and changed his name to Kieren O'Shaughnessy.
Take off your tinfoil hats for a second and actually use that gray matter between your ears...
/.? If censoring kiddie porn in hasn't led to other restrictions on free speech in Real Life, why would you think the end result would be any different in cyberspace?
The slippery slope argument boils down to one statement - "today they block kiddie porn, tomorrow they block everything else they disagree with". But is this a valid argument?
To get the answer, ask yourself one simple question - has the censorship of kiddie porn in Real Life led to the dire restrictions on other free speech rights being predicted by the doom and gloom crowd here at
...but then I got hungry.
Just set up a thing where you contact your computer directly or via cellphone to prevent it from doing its stuff. In the event of your death your data goes to where it should.
In the event of your death, or your three-day weekend in the mountains (out of cell-phone range), that is...
@gmail.com - $50
hackers@gmail.com - $200
CowboyNeal@gmail.com - priceless
There are some things money just can't buy... For everything else, there's eBay.