Access to television programming is clearly not a requirement for any one person. But, at least in a democracy, if access to the broadcast channels is made available to any subset of the populace then access to it for the general populace becomes a necessity for the preservation of democratic principles.
Since some people are too poor to afford cable, we can't do away with broadcast tv since we'd be denying them television access and that would be undemocratic? What if they're too poor to afford a tv at all, does the government have to buy them one? Television is still a luxury. Just because you can't pay for the distribution of it doesn't mean you should get it for free.
I don't really think this is a first ammendment issue. This is about reasonable expectation of privacy. A photo taken from a public place of the outside of a building shouldn't be considered to be violating a reasonable expectation of privacy. A photo taken through and uncovered window probably would violate that privacy. By the same token, using strange magic to photograph the inside of the home is probably a violation of privacy too. Would you want the cops too see straight through your walls and catch a glimpse of the bong on the table? Probably not...
I have all of my old isos that I've burned to cd over the years. I always wondered why I'd kept them around (when will I ever need to reinstall RedHat 5.0?!) but hey, maybe the good folk at $C0 would like to grep through the source for some more lawsuit ammo. Anyone else care to throw down?
Q. I can send and receive messages, but am having trouble using some of the other ICQ features. Is this because I am behind a firewall?
A.
If you are behind a firewall, you should be able to send and receive messages, SMS, and URLs.
However, you might not be able to use ICQ features that establish a direct peer-to-peer connection. The features that may not work include: File Transfer, Shared Files, ICQphone, ICQ Web Front, ICQ Voice Message, and ICQ Chat.
Note: You may also have trouble launching or using ICQ's external applications, including sending and receiving game or IP telephony/voice chat requests.
So it would appear that normal messaging goes through the server but chat, file transfer, voice, and some other stuff is direct client to client.
But if you limit your beta testers to ones who care more because they've paid, you end up with people who don't act like dicks in the game because they paid and don't want to get the boot, just like you've said. But then when it comes to a real release of the game, as we all know, you get people acting like dicks. One of the points of a beta release is to get people to try anything, no matter how stupid it seems, to see if it breaks something. If all of your beta testers pussy foot around and do what would be normally expected in the game, chances ar it'll work fine. It's the people who do the stupid things that find the bugs, and that's what beta testing needs. And let's face it, people will steal your loot and your kills in the real game, so you might as well have that all worked out in the beta too.
Everyone is throwing around "hacker" and "cracker" here. Go read the forums. It's quite possible it was an undocumented cheat left in from beta code to turn on god mode or something similar. So if it's just cheating in an online game should they still be punished? If I use code *exactly as it was intended to be used* in a game should I go to jail? Maybe people should stop taking their games so seriously. Big deal, your character died because someone cheated. They already said they'd roll the server back to a few hours before all the hilarity, so you're not losing anything. It's just a game. If this were online banking software this happened to everyone would be talking about how the coders should be hanged. If you leave *hidden* features in your software that can be found and cause monetary damage to yourself and your customers, you have no right to whine when someone finds them.
Conspiracy theory anyone? The MPAA makes a high quality rip of Reloaded, sticks it on BitTorrent, bitches about the "piracy" to the media, then sits back and watch their logs for IPs of all the "thieves". Nail a bunch of them with lawsuits and now everyone's afraid to download from BitTorrent.
You can get
500 sheets for just over $100 which puts it at about $0.20 per sheet. You should be able to get at least 4 bills out of one 8.5" x 11" sheet (I can't find a ruler right now to measure a bill...) so even if you print singles (lower risk of getting caught) you could make $2000 off of an investment of $100 in paper plus your ink cartridges. That's all assuming that the 24 lb. paper is the right feel for bills.
exactly. so who cares if you cheat a benchmark? but fudging stats on a real-world application is pretty shady, because it's something people actually use and might base their purchasing decision on.
It's the exact same thing. Both companies tried to get higher performance out of their hardware on one specific piece of software by writing different routines for that software. Don't try to tell me that higher fps in Quake3 didn't help ATI sell more cards. The claim was made by ATI and people testing it on Quake3 that on a certain hardware spec, it got this performance. It's all marketing. Hell, I'm more likely to buy a card based on real world performace like a game than based on a benchmark, so as far as I'm concerned, ATI did something more underhanded here. They cheated in real world performance at the cost of image quality. All nVidia did was cheat a stupid benchmark.
Sure it's worthy of a slashdot article. "News for Nerds". I'm interested in gardening, cooking, home brewery, but now I'm getting to learn what hobbies other geeks pursue, and it's giving me ideas for what I may move on to next, what with my short attention span and all. I'd go so far as to say it's one of the better slashdot articles. Sometimes the best stuff doesn't come from "M$ suX0rz" articles, it comes from the more personal stuff, and the meta-chat. Some of the best stuff I've read on here has come from the polls.
"I think the concerns being raised are 100 percent valid," Mr. Terwilliger said. "However, they're being raised by people who have little idea about what actually goes on."
Somehow I just don't trust a man named 'Terwilliger' to *not* rig an election. He'd probably have our dead pets voting him in as mayor...
Oh, this goes far alright. This goes deep. Last week when the temperatures started to rise I sent an IM to my co-worker Steve reading "It's hot in here!". Thirty seconds later I had lawyers representing Nelly at my cubicle with a C&D. When I IM'd Steve about the lawyers he responded "E-I-E-I Uh Ohhhhhhhhh"...
Which is why it's called breaking and entering, and not just uh... entering.
I believe the term is *trespassing*. Why can't we apply this to computers? I can leave my front door unlocked so that my friends can just walk in. If a cop walks in and spots the bong on the counter, he can't do anything since he has no legal reason/right to be there (assuming no warrant). Why can't I leave my ftp server open without having to worry about shit like this?
I just moved into a new apartment. The rent here is lower. I was thinking that the honest thing to do would be to tell my employer that since I now have an extra hundred bucks every month that maybe I should take a pay cut, since I don't want to appear greedy. Any thoughts?
Sorry if I seem rude, but that sounds like a stupid question. When you factor in studio time for recording, the cost of a decent producer, production of cds, marketing, etc, etc, etc, the *one time* cost of your mixing software is pretty much nil. If the billing department at your local garage switched to linux from windows, would you expect them to charge you less for an oil change? Hell no. Lower costs equals greater profit. This is basic business here. Just because it's the recording industry, doesn't mean we should be angry. They do a lot of vile, underhanded things, but this isn't one of them.
witness the many orgs that do a great deal of good based on the small donations of just a few
And the day I see the CEO of one of these charitable organizations driving around in a ferrari is the day I stop giving them money. The whole point of the parent post (I'm assuming) is that we could possibly be donating cpu cycles to this, and if a cure is found from our free labour, the drug gets patented and priced out of the range of the majority of the population. Would you still feel "Perfectly fine" if your mother died of S.A.R.S. and couldn't afford the cure, even though you helped find it?
except when it's intellectual property, which in this case was a trade secret. I mean, I could give out your social security number and that wouldn't be theft, right? your identity isn't property, it's just information...
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Access to television programming is clearly not a requirement for any one person. But, at least in a democracy, if access to the broadcast channels is made available to any subset of the populace then access to it for the general populace becomes a necessity for the preservation of democratic principles.
Since some people are too poor to afford cable, we can't do away with broadcast tv since we'd be denying them television access and that would be undemocratic? What if they're too poor to afford a tv at all, does the government have to buy them one? Television is still a luxury. Just because you can't pay for the distribution of it doesn't mean you should get it for free.
It obviously does, as he seems to be serving his website from it.
I don't really think this is a first ammendment issue. This is about reasonable expectation of privacy. A photo taken from a public place of the outside of a building shouldn't be considered to be violating a reasonable expectation of privacy. A photo taken through and uncovered window probably would violate that privacy. By the same token, using strange magic to photograph the inside of the home is probably a violation of privacy too. Would you want the cops too see straight through your walls and catch a glimpse of the bong on the table? Probably not...
I have all of my old isos that I've burned to cd over the years. I always wondered why I'd kept them around (when will I ever need to reinstall RedHat 5.0?!) but hey, maybe the good folk at $C0 would like to grep through the source for some more lawsuit ammo. Anyone else care to throw down?
So it would appear that normal messaging goes through the server but chat, file transfer, voice, and some other stuff is direct client to client.
But if you limit your beta testers to ones who care more because they've paid, you end up with people who don't act like dicks in the game because they paid and don't want to get the boot, just like you've said. But then when it comes to a real release of the game, as we all know, you get people acting like dicks. One of the points of a beta release is to get people to try anything, no matter how stupid it seems, to see if it breaks something. If all of your beta testers pussy foot around and do what would be normally expected in the game, chances ar it'll work fine. It's the people who do the stupid things that find the bugs, and that's what beta testing needs. And let's face it, people will steal your loot and your kills in the real game, so you might as well have that all worked out in the beta too.
Everyone is throwing around "hacker" and "cracker" here. Go read the forums. It's quite possible it was an undocumented cheat left in from beta code to turn on god mode or something similar. So if it's just cheating in an online game should they still be punished? If I use code *exactly as it was intended to be used* in a game should I go to jail? Maybe people should stop taking their games so seriously. Big deal, your character died because someone cheated. They already said they'd roll the server back to a few hours before all the hilarity, so you're not losing anything. It's just a game. If this were online banking software this happened to everyone would be talking about how the coders should be hanged. If you leave *hidden* features in your software that can be found and cause monetary damage to yourself and your customers, you have no right to whine when someone finds them.
Conspiracy theory anyone? The MPAA makes a high quality rip of Reloaded, sticks it on BitTorrent, bitches about the "piracy" to the media, then sits back and watch their logs for IPs of all the "thieves". Nail a bunch of them with lawsuits and now everyone's afraid to download from BitTorrent.
You can get 500 sheets for just over $100 which puts it at about $0.20 per sheet. You should be able to get at least 4 bills out of one 8.5" x 11" sheet (I can't find a ruler right now to measure a bill...) so even if you print singles (lower risk of getting caught) you could make $2000 off of an investment of $100 in paper plus your ink cartridges. That's all assuming that the 24 lb. paper is the right feel for bills.
exactly. so who cares if you cheat a benchmark? but fudging stats on a real-world application is pretty shady, because it's something people actually use and might base their purchasing decision on.
It's the exact same thing. Both companies tried to get higher performance out of their hardware on one specific piece of software by writing different routines for that software. Don't try to tell me that higher fps in Quake3 didn't help ATI sell more cards. The claim was made by ATI and people testing it on Quake3 that on a certain hardware spec, it got this performance. It's all marketing. Hell, I'm more likely to buy a card based on real world performace like a game than based on a benchmark, so as far as I'm concerned, ATI did something more underhanded here. They cheated in real world performance at the cost of image quality. All nVidia did was cheat a stupid benchmark.
Sure it's worthy of a slashdot article. "News for Nerds". I'm interested in gardening, cooking, home brewery, but now I'm getting to learn what hobbies other geeks pursue, and it's giving me ideas for what I may move on to next, what with my short attention span and all. I'd go so far as to say it's one of the better slashdot articles. Sometimes the best stuff doesn't come from "M$ suX0rz" articles, it comes from the more personal stuff, and the meta-chat. Some of the best stuff I've read on here has come from the polls.
Yeah, but reverse engineering the wifi driver is now illegal (in the U.S.) so you can't really write your own (in the U.S.)
Seems to me that dogs and wolves both belong to the genus "canis". Why can't humans and chimps be of the same genus?
Think so? I'd heard that 64 kb should be enough for everyone...
"I think the concerns being raised are 100 percent valid," Mr. Terwilliger said. "However, they're being raised by people who have little idea about what actually goes on."
Somehow I just don't trust a man named 'Terwilliger' to *not* rig an election. He'd probably have our dead pets voting him in as mayor...
Oh, this goes far alright. This goes deep. Last week when the temperatures started to rise I sent an IM to my co-worker Steve reading "It's hot in here!". Thirty seconds later I had lawyers representing Nelly at my cubicle with a C&D. When I IM'd Steve about the lawyers he responded "E-I-E-I Uh Ohhhhhhhhh"...
Which is why it's called breaking and entering, and not just uh... entering.
I believe the term is *trespassing*. Why can't we apply this to computers? I can leave my front door unlocked so that my friends can just walk in. If a cop walks in and spots the bong on the counter, he can't do anything since he has no legal reason/right to be there (assuming no warrant). Why can't I leave my ftp server open without having to worry about shit like this?
What if Mars bans NAT like Michigan did?
I just moved into a new apartment. The rent here is lower. I was thinking that the honest thing to do would be to tell my employer that since I now have an extra hundred bucks every month that maybe I should take a pay cut, since I don't want to appear greedy. Any thoughts?
Sorry if I seem rude, but that sounds like a stupid question. When you factor in studio time for recording, the cost of a decent producer, production of cds, marketing, etc, etc, etc, the *one time* cost of your mixing software is pretty much nil. If the billing department at your local garage switched to linux from windows, would you expect them to charge you less for an oil change? Hell no. Lower costs equals greater profit. This is basic business here. Just because it's the recording industry, doesn't mean we should be angry. They do a lot of vile, underhanded things, but this isn't one of them.
Generations one through four? Kind of like 'Alive', only with less "eating the midfielder" and more "eating your parents".
witness the many orgs that do a great deal of good based on the small donations of just a few
And the day I see the CEO of one of these charitable organizations driving around in a ferrari is the day I stop giving them money. The whole point of the parent post (I'm assuming) is that we could possibly be donating cpu cycles to this, and if a cure is found from our free labour, the drug gets patented and priced out of the range of the majority of the population. Would you still feel "Perfectly fine" if your mother died of S.A.R.S. and couldn't afford the cure, even though you helped find it?
except when it's intellectual property, which in this case was a trade secret. I mean, I could give out your social security number and that wouldn't be theft, right? your identity isn't property, it's just information...
yup, and to make it even simpler, the command is run at startup.