Jester sounds like the Terminator..
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The Jester is this story's villain, one that can't talk, eat, get tired, or be reasoned with
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with; it doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are DEAD!
Actually, they supposedly made changes to SP4's EULA in direct response to the foofaraw over SP3's. I haven't read it yet, but they apparently spell out clearly what they can do to your machine (install updates automatically) and how you can disallow them from doing it, which is by turning off Automatic Updates and the media player automatic codec download thingy.
This is very simple. A song is something tangible.
Heheehahahaheaheaa!!!! Someone get this man a dictionary! Oh, wait, I have one here:
Tangible, adj.
1. capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial. 2. real or actual, rather than imaginary or visionary. 3. definite; not vague or elusive. 4. (of an asset) having actual physical existence, as real estate or chattels, and therefore capable of being assigned a value in monetary terms.
Only #3 could possibly be construed as supporting your argument, and even that's a stretch.
I honestly don't understand why people have such a hard time grasping this simple idea.
I don't doubt it! Let me make it clear through the standard example that is used to refute kooks like you:
If you have a car, and I steal it, you no longer have your car. If you have an MP3 of a song, and I copy it, both you *and* I now have the song! Do you see the difference here?
Um, you can buy FM transmitters for about $30, they work with any portable stereo (or anything that has a headphone jack, really). All Neuros did was build it into their player. It's cool, but certainly no reason to buy a Neuros.
Microsoft's license agreement for Win XP makes it illegal for you to use any desktop remote control software other than Microsoft's built-in stuff. That means that if you use VNC to control an XP box, you are in violation of the license agreement. It also states that you can't access an XP machine from anything other than another XP machine. From the license agreement:
"Except as otherwise permitted by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."
Forgive my ambivalence about having 'unsophisticated users' watching a webcam, trying to outsmart and detect people who have been training in the desert for the past 5 years on how to AVOID being detected.
If I'm going to be subjected to advertising, which seems unavoidable no matter where you go on the web, then at least text ads will have less of an impact on the loading speed of the page I'm interested in. Time will tell if people pay any more attention to them than they do to banner ads.
Where did you read this? I'm not doubting, just want to see the quote. This sounds like something that would be in the news if it were true. Not the US repug lapdog news, of course...
"Today's interview with Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute (and Carl Sagan's inspiration for the main character of his novel Contact), outlines the forthcoming search capabilities of the large Allen Telescope Array.
It's going to take them forever using ATA, wouldn't SCSI be able to handle many more simultaneous searches?
I sure am glad we're spending 50 million dollars to find out why an old, damaged spacecraft exploded, killing several people who knew what they were doing, and only 9 million to find out how our government's inability to communicate with itself allowed 9/11 to happen. Our government sure does have its priorities in order.
Not 'was being held', IS being held. He's still there. At least, we assume he is. After all, with a government like this, he could have been executed already and we wouldn't know.
Wow, I see you give your child all the opportunities a geek's son could want. He's not even out of elementary school yet and not only do you already have his future profession picked out, you know where he's going to go to college! What a lucky boy.
I woke up this morning, and thought to myself: I would like to recapture the spirit of yesterday when I got out of bed and checked my email. My first step was to get out of bed. I knew that if I were to put one foot on the floor, then the other, that I could then walk over to the bathroom. Of course, the bathroom was not my ultimate destination, but I had to pee. I had several options:
1. Throw off the covers, put my left foot on the floor, then my right. Then I could proceed to the bathroom or the desk. 2. Slide out from under the covers, put both feet on the floor simultaneously.
The pop-up spam doesn't use MSN Messenger (the IM client), it uses the Windows Messenger *service*, which is installed and turned on by default on Win2k and XP machines.
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The Jester is this story's villain, one that can't talk, eat, get tired, or be reasoned with
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with; it doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are DEAD!
Actually, they supposedly made changes to SP4's EULA in direct response to the foofaraw over SP3's. I haven't read it yet, but they apparently spell out clearly what they can do to your machine (install updates automatically) and how you can disallow them from doing it, which is by turning off Automatic Updates and the media player automatic codec download thingy.
Heheehahahaheaheaa!!!! Someone get this man a dictionary! Oh, wait, I have one here:
Tangible, adj.
1. capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
2. real or actual, rather than imaginary or visionary.
3. definite; not vague or elusive.
4. (of an asset) having actual physical existence, as real estate or chattels, and therefore capable of being assigned a value in monetary terms.
Only #3 could possibly be construed as supporting your argument, and even that's a stretch.
I don't doubt it! Let me make it clear through the standard example that is used to refute kooks like you:
If you have a car, and I steal it, you no longer have your car. If you have an MP3 of a song, and I copy it, both you *and* I now have the song! Do you see the difference here?
Well, I assume that *I* am 100% accurate at classifying my own mail, but I can see how someone who gets a lot more of it might not be.
This isn't very reassuring:
"it practically eliminates the main problem of other solutions: the false-positive."
What does 'practically eliminates' mean? If it gives false positives at all, it is just as useless as all those 'other solutions'.
He's in my killfile.
Um, you can buy FM transmitters for about $30, they work with any portable stereo (or anything that has a headphone jack, really). All Neuros did was build it into their player. It's cool, but certainly no reason to buy a Neuros.
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5dab
https://www.myirock.com/players/300W%20-%20FM%2
It's also going to be the LAST speed bump with the Barton core. AMD's next Athlon is going to be 64 bits:
http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-1001106.html?tag =fd_lede1_hed
Microsoft's license agreement for Win XP makes it illegal for you to use any desktop remote control software other than Microsoft's built-in stuff. That means that if you use VNC to control an XP box, you are in violation of the license agreement. It also states that you can't access an XP machine from anything other than another XP machine. From the license agreement:
"Except as otherwise permitted by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."
Forgive my ambivalence about having 'unsophisticated users' watching a webcam, trying to outsmart and detect people who have been training in the desert for the past 5 years on how to AVOID being detected.
In true George Lucas maximum money-extraction fashion, you will not be able to buy the films separately, only as a box set.
If I'm going to be subjected to advertising, which seems unavoidable no matter where you go on the web, then at least text ads will have less of an impact on the loading speed of the page I'm interested in. Time will tell if people pay any more attention to them than they do to banner ads.
Where did you read this? I'm not doubting, just want to see the quote. This sounds like something that would be in the news if it were true. Not the US repug lapdog news, of course...
"Today's interview with Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute (and Carl Sagan's inspiration for the main character of his novel Contact), outlines the forthcoming search capabilities of the large Allen Telescope Array.
It's going to take them forever using ATA, wouldn't SCSI be able to handle many more simultaneous searches?
I sure am glad we're spending 50 million dollars to find out why an old, damaged spacecraft exploded, killing several people who knew what they were doing, and only 9 million to find out how our government's inability to communicate with itself allowed 9/11 to happen. Our government sure does have its priorities in order.
Not 'was being held', IS being held. He's still there. At least, we assume he is. After all, with a government like this, he could have been executed already and we wouldn't know.
I think I know what may be contained on the recording:
"uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccckkkk!!!!!"
Yeah, I know it's the data recorder they recovered and not the voice recorder...
The Wristomo Wrist Phone unique design lets users transform it into a handset.
Uhh, Wristomo? What kind of name is that for a Decepticon? I am not afraid. Now Soundwave, that was a cool transforming audio device.
I don't know, but I do think it's a bit gay.
Wow, I see you give your child all the opportunities a geek's son could want. He's not even out of elementary school yet and not only do you already have his future profession picked out, you know where he's going to go to college! What a lucky boy.
"I guess I'll have to tough it out with my mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation for now (heh heh heh)."
/costanza
Oh yeah?! Well I had sex with YOUR WIFE!!
I woke up this morning, and thought to myself: I would like to recapture the spirit of yesterday when I got out of bed and checked my email. My first step was to get out of bed. I knew that if I were to put one foot on the floor, then the other, that I could then walk over to the bathroom. Of course, the bathroom was not my ultimate destination, but I had to pee. I had several options:
1. Throw off the covers, put my left foot on the floor, then my right. Then I could proceed to the bathroom or the desk.
2. Slide out from under the covers, put both feet on the floor simultaneously.
And so on...
I tried to submit this a while ago, but the link kept disappearing, strangely blending into the white background of the page.
severe damage (i.e., it requires a rebuild, not a repair).
We can rebuild it, we have the technology.
Trillian is nice, though.