Unfortunately not really. If you look at laws in the perspective of capitalism, any action that deters the transfer of money is a crime.
Killing someone prevents them from buying that new Porsche. And it also causes the police to write a report, take photos, coroner's autopsy, blah blah blah. Lotsa money is involved.
Recording a movie and distributing it is EXACTLY like growing weed and distributing it. In this kid's case, he was just caught cultivating.
Do I think a fine of $2,500 is reasonable? Of course. Do I think the MPAA wants a higher fine? No doubt. For every person who downloads it, the movie business loses around 5-6 bucks. Now go look at a Spiderman 2 torrent's statistics. All those seeders and leechers are exactly what the MPAA is trying to stop. Although in terms of box office numbers, it's very small, but still, Hollywood has the right to all the money it has earned.
Do I think that a year's punishment is excessive? Without a doubt. But copyright infringement is a crime. Lawmakers passed it. The courts so far haven't been interested at taking a poke at it.
This is a little bit OT, but you can write off any purchases required for work, this includes education. Perhaps writing off that expensive oscilloscope would be equivalent to not writing off a less featured model.
I have no idea why everyone complains about patenting their products, as its the same thing as our right to free speech.
Free speech was meant to protect unfavorable or unpopular speech, such as telling Bush to go sit and spin on a nuclear warhead. The first amendment prevents the government from hacking off my head for showing disapproval for the dimwitted President.
This is exactly the same for patents. It protects smaller businesses from having their ideas stolen by huge corporations.
Of course, free speech and patents are applicable to everyone. If the government were to abolish the patent system, it would be just as bad as abolishing free speech. Without small businesses, the world's economy will always be controlled by huge corporations who have no respect for the little person, like you and I. Of course, at this current time the world is pretty much run by huge corporations who lobby with millions of dollars to politicians, but soon in the future, laws will be passed, and that problem will be gone.
But it still doesn't make sense. Some secure sites have a feature that requires a referrer link when you access different pages. If you type in a URL, there is no referrer link, and so in that case, you might not be able to access that site.
On the other hand, I use Opera, and I love it. While it has a little banner that display ads depending on what you're currently surfing (unless you pay 30 bucks for it), I find it in no way to be intrusive. Go try it out.
1. Don't open any attachments that are potential virus, (.exe,.vbs,.com, etc.)
2. Disable your email client's automatically message preview pane. This makes exploit viruses a little easier on you, as you can select the message and delete it without having to preview it instantaneously.
3. Download a mail proxy program (I use MailWasher), it'll filter out spam, and allow you to see a text version of the message, without downloading the attachment.
4. Have your AV update its definition religiously. Of course, this only helps if your AV company updates its definition religiously as well.
Of course, the first 3 don't require a virus scanner at all, just common sense. As a gamer, I hated having NAV or McAfee VirusScan hog up 30MB of my memory, so I removed it. I make smart and conscious decisions, and have never had a virus on my computer for several years.
For probably the same amount as that case, you can buy yourself a Vapochill, which will undoubtedly drop the temperature to around -5 to 5 degrees F. Of course, it still has fans and hard drives and optical drives, but you could create a case for your case. Using the same methods to make ported speaker enclosures, you can create a windy path for the sound to slowly leak out. Sorta like how Bose WaveRadio's work, except using eggcrate foam in the inner paths to dissipate the noise, rather than channel it out into beautiful, beautiful noise. Cheaper, cooler, and sexier, because you made it yourself.
Since when does Apple own the decimal form of hard drive capacity? AFAIK, ALL hard drive manufacturers use decimal (base-10), 1TB = 1x10^12 bytes. Operating systems happen to use the binary form (base-2), or as you said above, 1099511627776 bytes.
Mars Solar Time Watches Get them in Analog, Digital, or Binary!
Analog - Watch the Mars Rover travel around the 12-hour, 19-minute, 30-second clock face! At every revolution the rover lights up, sending its "signal" back to Houston!
Digital - Those aren't just polygon making those numbers come to life, they're Mars Rovers intertwined to become numbers!
Binary - Okay, it's basically our Binary Clock, but instead of dots they're Mars Rovers. So sue us;)
Back in the day 10MB MFM drives, and even 1GB SCSI hard drives were the size of 2 5.25" bays (full height spec). These bad boys (at the time) weighed a ton, and of course went well with those huge AT cases. Anyways, people have been known to melt these drives down and extract the gold that was used to plate the inside of the drive.
Seriously, these hard drives would make a great paperweight buy on ThinkGeek, although the shipping would obviously be a little high...
to see Longshoremen on the list. My dad had many friends who became longshoremen, and yes the money was really good. And my uncle happens to manage a stevedoring (ship un/docking, moving of goods) company. But these people deserve the good money. They have to ship out many thousands of tons of lumber to foreign countries, the best example, Japan. It's a pretty dangerous job, unlike what the article happens to say. And it's not easy to become a longshoreman. If you're related to someone who's in the business, your chance skyrockets. It's like a family business that happens to pay really well.
1. Get access to your server. 2. Blow yeast on it. 3. ??? 4. If yeast turns green, there's a patch coming out soon. If it turns red, well, you're screwed.
An IPO can also give Microsoft a chance to outbid everyone and effectively purchase the majority of Google's shares. Microsoft will own Google, and hell will freeze over, this time not in Apple's favor.
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Unfortunately not really. If you look at laws in the perspective of capitalism, any action that deters the transfer of money is a crime.
Killing someone prevents them from buying that new Porsche. And it also causes the police to write a report, take photos, coroner's autopsy, blah blah blah. Lotsa money is involved.
Recording a movie and distributing it is EXACTLY like growing weed and distributing it. In this kid's case, he was just caught cultivating.
Do I think a fine of $2,500 is reasonable? Of course. Do I think the MPAA wants a higher fine? No doubt. For every person who downloads it, the movie business loses around 5-6 bucks. Now go look at a Spiderman 2 torrent's statistics. All those seeders and leechers are exactly what the MPAA is trying to stop. Although in terms of box office numbers, it's very small, but still, Hollywood has the right to all the money it has earned.
Do I think that a year's punishment is excessive? Without a doubt. But copyright infringement is a crime. Lawmakers passed it. The courts so far haven't been interested at taking a poke at it.
Do you think you'll find porno DVDs in the vending machines in the bathrooms? I can't wait to find out!
Oh, the Canadians got what they wanted, they just purhcased 160M in intellectual property!
This is a little bit OT, but you can write off any purchases required for work, this includes education. Perhaps writing off that expensive oscilloscope would be equivalent to not writing off a less featured model.
I have no idea why everyone complains about patenting their products, as its the same thing as our right to free speech.
Free speech was meant to protect unfavorable or unpopular speech, such as telling Bush to go sit and spin on a nuclear warhead. The first amendment prevents the government from hacking off my head for showing disapproval for the dimwitted President.
This is exactly the same for patents. It protects smaller businesses from having their ideas stolen by huge corporations.
Of course, free speech and patents are applicable to everyone. If the government were to abolish the patent system, it would be just as bad as abolishing free speech. Without small businesses, the world's economy will always be controlled by huge corporations who have no respect for the little person, like you and I. Of course, at this current time the world is pretty much run by huge corporations who lobby with millions of dollars to politicians, but soon in the future, laws will be passed, and that problem will be gone.
They forgot to mention that Nissan's high frequency sound doesn't disrupt the hailstone process, it just tells the hailstones not to hit Nissan cars!
1. "Damnit! The internet crashed again!" (motorcycle wrecks into sheep)
2. Someone carjacks you, along with your signal! (sheep takes your wheels)
3. Knowing that a bunch of pringles cans would prove easier than motorcycles.
'Its brain -- a 40-pound computer system tucked inside its body -- processes that data, and makes instant judgments on how to act and where to go.'
"Dude, we're at a 7-11! I like how this computer thinks!"
But it still doesn't make sense. Some secure sites have a feature that requires a referrer link when you access different pages. If you type in a URL, there is no referrer link, and so in that case, you might not be able to access that site.
On the other hand, I use Opera, and I love it. While it has a little banner that display ads depending on what you're currently surfing (unless you pay 30 bucks for it), I find it in no way to be intrusive. Go try it out.
To remove this IE exploit, download this TXT or PDF. Um, it contains the instructions to remove it. Yeah...
Lyrics: Developers! (repeated infinitely)
Vocal Expression: Steve Ballmer. Cracky voice. Exhausted.
1. Don't open any attachments that are potential virus, (.exe, .vbs, .com, etc.)
2. Disable your email client's automatically message preview pane. This makes exploit viruses a little easier on you, as you can select the message and delete it without having to preview it instantaneously.
3. Download a mail proxy program (I use MailWasher), it'll filter out spam, and allow you to see a text version of the message, without downloading the attachment.
4. Have your AV update its definition religiously. Of course, this only helps if your AV company updates its definition religiously as well.
Of course, the first 3 don't require a virus scanner at all, just common sense. As a gamer, I hated having NAV or McAfee VirusScan hog up 30MB of my memory, so I removed it. I make smart and conscious decisions, and have never had a virus on my computer for several years.
For probably the same amount as that case, you can buy yourself a Vapochill, which will undoubtedly drop the temperature to around -5 to 5 degrees F. Of course, it still has fans and hard drives and optical drives, but you could create a case for your case. Using the same methods to make ported speaker enclosures, you can create a windy path for the sound to slowly leak out. Sorta like how Bose WaveRadio's work, except using eggcrate foam in the inner paths to dissipate the noise, rather than channel it out into beautiful, beautiful noise. Cheaper, cooler, and sexier, because you made it yourself.
Since when does Apple own the decimal form of hard drive capacity? AFAIK, ALL hard drive manufacturers use decimal (base-10), 1TB = 1x10^12 bytes. Operating systems happen to use the binary form (base-2), or as you said above, 1099511627776 bytes.
**nudges ThinkGeek**
;)
Mars Solar Time Watches
Get them in Analog, Digital, or Binary!
Analog - Watch the Mars Rover travel around the 12-hour, 19-minute, 30-second clock face! At every revolution the rover lights up, sending its "signal" back to Houston!
Digital - Those aren't just polygon making those numbers come to life, they're Mars Rovers intertwined to become numbers!
Binary - Okay, it's basically our Binary Clock, but instead of dots they're Mars Rovers. So sue us
I can go to Australia, meet Linus at a bar, and outdrink a peron of worldwide importance, in the nude! Schweet.
Back in the day 10MB MFM drives, and even 1GB SCSI hard drives were the size of 2 5.25" bays (full height spec). These bad boys (at the time) weighed a ton, and of course went well with those huge AT cases. Anyways, people have been known to melt these drives down and extract the gold that was used to plate the inside of the drive.
Seriously, these hard drives would make a great paperweight buy on ThinkGeek, although the shipping would obviously be a little high...
Michael Jackson had a nosejob, and we still know he's MJ... or do we?....
The director sure has a thing for cleavage shots! Get that man an Emmy!
to see Longshoremen on the list. My dad had many friends who became longshoremen, and yes the money was really good. And my uncle happens to manage a stevedoring (ship un/docking, moving of goods) company. But these people deserve the good money. They have to ship out many thousands of tons of lumber to foreign countries, the best example, Japan. It's a pretty dangerous job, unlike what the article happens to say. And it's not easy to become a longshoreman. If you're related to someone who's in the business, your chance skyrockets. It's like a family business that happens to pay really well.
Directions:
1. Get access to your server.
2. Blow yeast on it.
3. ???
4. If yeast turns green, there's a patch coming out soon. If it turns red, well, you're screwed.
Egon: Don't cross the streams.
Peter: Why?
Egon: It would be bad.
Oh yeah!!!
An IPO can also give Microsoft a chance to outbid everyone and effectively purchase the majority of Google's shares. Microsoft will own Google, and hell will freeze over, this time not in Apple's favor.
But if it is, I'd sure to hate to have a pacemaker with it. It'd suck to suffer from a literal version of BSOD.
Don't take a risk you can't afford to lose.
Dumbasses.