Yes, that's exactly what internet poker sites have done following similarly harsh legislation and DoJ actions against the major companies (including taking over their.com/.net/etc domains). They block you from playing real money games if you've listed a US address or log in from an IP geolocated in the US, to avoid getting into any more trouble with the DoJ.
Too bad you didn't provide links directly to those websites, because then if SOPA/PIPA were enacted and the domains were declared by the DoJ to be dedicated to infringing copyrights, Slashdot itself could be censored until your post was removed.
Do they "ask" about pre-installing crapware when you first buy the phone? This was an ota firmware update, and they changed some of the pre-loaded apps. I'm much happier about the carriers providing ota updates and working on a solution to let end users "remove" pre-loaded junk from their phones.
My family has 5 laptops and 2 desktops as primary computers, plus three smartphones. I have ways of storing my music centrally and making it accessible, but the simplicity of a cloud service to make it available at home, at work, at a friend's house, when I'm visiting my family, when I'm on vacation...
Plus, if this service turns in to something like Lala, they can provide cheap access to music you might like to listen via streaming to but don't want to bother paying full price for. I'll pay $10 to have 100 songs I can listen to on demand whenever I have internet access way before I spend $10 for a single CD.
Thank you, Google. Ever since Apple bought Lala just so they could shutter it, I've been waiting for someone else to fill the gap. Apple will have a hard time buying out the competition this time.
Do you know anyone with a one of these phones? Me either.
My wife was the first person I knew who had an Android phone, and it was when I bought her a Droid this past December. That was quite some time after the G1 came out, so I guess Android bombed too.
But less so than you already are today. At least with this approach, it's a lot cheaper to later upgrade such a chip, because you don't have to buy an entirely new chip to get the features that were disabled on your old one. Given the two options, I'd choose this one.
Wouldn't say it's a hoax... This keyboard PC has been on the market for years. This company sells it as the ZPC (for Zero-footprint PC).
Frankly, I wondered why it took so long for someone to decide to rebadge one as a Commodore. It was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it.
You can still purchase and operate your own vehicle without government "permission" - even without insurance! - on your own property. Just not on public (government-owned) roads.
So, I've been playing an account on EVE for a little more than a week. I have more than one ship, and have based myself where there is both high and low security systems around me. If I want to mine for a while but have other stuff to do, I send out my Wreathe into high security space and read my email as the mining laser chops away asteroids. Even if by chance I get attacked by some jerk who suicide bombs miners in 1.0 regions just for the joy of causing others grief, I have enough saved money to replace everything I have, and it only takes a couple mining trips to make it up again. (I'm upgrading away from the Wreathe tomorrow, though - I've been training skills for flying the mining barges, and will be able to do in 5 minutes what took 50 before. Training skills while you sleep is a nice feature.)
I have a destroyer as well that I've been using for running missions. I keep a salvager onboard and have made as much money salvaging the wrecks of NPC ships during missions as I have mining, so I haven't even sent the mining ship out in a couple days. Even last night when I lost my destroyer (was playing on a slow laptop for convenience, hard to warp out in time) I was still revenue positive for the mission after buying a complete replacement ship, finishing the job, and mopping up the wrecks.
Am I out there in massive fleet fights against player who have been playing for years longer than I have? Nope. Haven't ventured beyond 0.4 space yet (and that one taught me a lesson about using the in-game map before wandering around systems), haven't joined any of the big player corporations, and I'm having fun.
Then again, I liked Elite II: Frontier back in the '90s. At least the space combat isn't that tedious.
Several people loose their lives every hour of every day commuting from the suburbs to some office job in the big city. Let the astronauts worry about the risk of the job they've chosen and whether they feel it is worth it. And then ask me if I think my current job is worth the risk I take when I get into my Civic every day and venture out onto the roads filled with super-cab trucks and SUVs.
Hm. I've got an Equity I and I+ (with HD!). Maybe we should start a group...
Much like you said, I've got collections of old systems myself, and while some are significant in a universal way - an Osborne portable, for example - most are only significant to me.
The Equity I+ has actually seen some use, along with a Tandy almost-PC-compatible that my kids used to play Wheel of Fortune on a couple years ago. While they're nothing special, they are the oldest PC systems I have in working order, and I never had much PC experience until Win95 days. The PC XT and Dell XT clone I have were both given to me already pulled for parts, and I haven't scrounged up the stuff to make them whole again, although they are the more "important" systems.
So far just about every generic 2/3/486 I've come across has gone off for scrap, though.
My employer (a hospital) has a clear policy: As long as you are not on the clock, and you do not violate any laws, you may use the computer, internet, telephone, etc for personal use. I am writing this during my lunch time, for example.
And yes, the policy also states any such use can be monitored and revoked.
When I had a hard drive go bad, I threw a lastest-release distribution on a 1-year-old laptop and it was staggeringly slow. That experiment quickly ended and XP was promptly re-installed.
Even back in 2002, the last time I had a full-time Linux router/firewall/server running, it was difficult to keep upgrading on the same 6+ year old hardware. I gave up and bought a consumer router instead, because I didn't want to deal with the wierd issues that would creep up with new kernel releases, and the system kept taking up more RAM and CPU resources. So, no, it isn't just a matter of continually upgrading to the most recent version.
True, but Pike was captured after Nero had already arrived at Vulcan, defeated whatever defenses were there, and the four other starships that had come from Earth. I stand by my first point that Vulcan must not have had substantial defenses of their own, and while Earth was more fortified (Nero was insistant on having the "codes" for them, after all) he was able to neutralize these defenses before/when he arrived.
Ah, but the holodeck scene set up the conference room scene later on, where Whats-her-name-from-past-Earth changes Picard's plan with the thought-provoking dialogue that the TOS movies and TNG were made of, quoting classic literature and all.
The action didn't replace the traditional Trek recipe of social commentary, it was added to it - and that's what made ST II and VI, for example, the best films of the bunch for many fans.
I think #1-5 are plausable, and #6 was actually nothing new.
1. Suppose part of this can be due to Vulcans being pacifists, and the other to the Naranda having 100 years newer technology.
2. I am assuming Pike gave him the codes, which apparently let him deactivate the defenses.
3. It is likely that it would take some time for the moon's orbit to decay - for all we know, it did get destroyed a couple days later. Remember, there's little mass to absorb once the planet has been swallowed, so the black hole won't continue to grow at a fast rate.
4. The Naranda was orbiting Earth when it was drilling Earth. It warped away to chase Spock's ship. I don't think they revealed where they stopped.
5. I think it did, actually. It didn't pursue the shuttles, for example. It had 25 years to repair before we see it in action again.
6. I agree this was stupid, but it isn't correct to say Star Trek has had consistency of distance and time. When convenient for the plot for it to take a long time to get from place A to place B, it will, and the opposite is true as well. Even in the advanced future of TNG, it takes days to get from place to place, and often contributes stress to decisions. But in First Contact, the Enterprise-E is assigned to patrol the Romulan neutral zone and zips back to Earth in mere minutes, just in time to rally the fleet and destroy the Borg Cube. Say what?
I'm surprised you didn't mention the super-supernova that somehow threatened the entire known galaxy. And that they couldn't predict the expansion of said supernova well enough to know it would destroy Romulus before Spock's ship could make it. Maybe Spock is just a bad story-teller in his old age, though, and mixed up some of the details. (sigh)
And, of course, the paradox stuff about altering the past. If Spock never offers to save the Romulans - say, Ambassador Spock's overtures for reconcilliation between Vulcan and Romulus in TNG never happen - there won't be ill-will from Nero and won't be a superweapon to abuse, so will everyone suddenly wake up the next day back in "our" Trek universe again, with no clue it ever happened (except Guinan)? But, no, because if the timeline hadn't changed, then Spock and Nero would have...
(Will he have to find a way to create the situation again, dragging Nero and himself into the black hole too late to save Romulus, knowing it will directly lead to the destruction of his home planet and the death of his mother? Man, talk about payback.)
The nagging thing that bothers me the most, though, was the flash promotion from cadet-facing-expulsion to Captain in command of the Federation flagship. It was beyond excessive, it's flat out absurd. In STIV, Kirk saved Earth and was still demoted two ranks for his misconduct in STIII.
Still, a good movie overall. They borked the science a bit more than traditional Trek did, although they did finally realize that you can't hear in vacuum and that there is no "up" in space. Unlike some "reboots" that simply ignore the fact they are changing a story that has already been told, at least there was a plot behind it that was consistent with the existing universe. And there were far more moments that stayed true to what little pre-TOS canon we have (for example, Spock's childhood scenes were almost verbatim from the animated series episode "Yesteryear") than went counter to it (Spock and Uhura? WTF?).
Uh... The service creates an index of all your music files and lets you stream that list of music for free. Then, you can pay $0.10/song to add songs you don't own into the playlist. That's the DRM part - you are restricted from saving the streaming-only songs to your PC or PMP.
Or you can "buy" and download DRM-free MP3s for a couple bucks, like an ordinary music store.
There was an outbreak of an influenza that was named swine flu at Fort Dix in the past. It didn't spread (although I've read it lead to a vaccine campaign that was linked to Guillain-Barre symdrome).
This form of influenza is not the same as the swine flu that happened then, just like this year's other predominant "human" influenza strains are not the same as the ones last year, or the year before. (Sometimes they do last for more than one year, but it is not a common occurance.)
Um, they did the same thing with Vista. The RC was public and came with a year expiration also.
Not only that, but going to the launch expos they had across the country, they passed out free Vista "RTM" discs (confusing because it was not the actual OEM or retail disc) with another year license (plus a full license to Office 2k7).
Yeah, the initial default judgement was entered in November.
Status hearing held. Oral motion by Plaintiff's counsel for entry of default as to defendant is granted. It is hereby ordered that default is entered against Defendant, Jason Fortuny for failure appear or answer. Damages hearing is set for 1/7/2009 at 9:30AM.
A motion to dismiss was filed with the court in December, that was dated as written in October, but it was already too late by then. He didn't show up to the damages hearing either, thus the plaintiff got everything they asked for.
Lesson to be learned: If you have a court date, SHOW UP.
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Yes, that's exactly what internet poker sites have done following similarly harsh legislation and DoJ actions against the major companies (including taking over their .com/.net/etc domains). They block you from playing real money games if you've listed a US address or log in from an IP geolocated in the US, to avoid getting into any more trouble with the DoJ.
Too bad you didn't provide links directly to those websites, because then if SOPA/PIPA were enacted and the domains were declared by the DoJ to be dedicated to infringing copyrights, Slashdot itself could be censored until your post was removed.
Both of those are better than what I got. My check from the eBay settlement was a whopping $0.02.
...firmware updates update firmware!
Do they "ask" about pre-installing crapware when you first buy the phone? This was an ota firmware update, and they changed some of the pre-loaded apps. I'm much happier about the carriers providing ota updates and working on a solution to let end users "remove" pre-loaded junk from their phones.
My family has 5 laptops and 2 desktops as primary computers, plus three smartphones. I have ways of storing my music centrally and making it accessible, but the simplicity of a cloud service to make it available at home, at work, at a friend's house, when I'm visiting my family, when I'm on vacation...
Plus, if this service turns in to something like Lala, they can provide cheap access to music you might like to listen via streaming to but don't want to bother paying full price for. I'll pay $10 to have 100 songs I can listen to on demand whenever I have internet access way before I spend $10 for a single CD.
Thank you, Google. Ever since Apple bought Lala just so they could shutter it, I've been waiting for someone else to fill the gap. Apple will have a hard time buying out the competition this time.
Do you know anyone with a one of these phones? Me either.
My wife was the first person I knew who had an Android phone, and it was when I bought her a Droid this past December. That was quite some time after the G1 came out, so I guess Android bombed too.
Oh, what?
But less so than you already are today. At least with this approach, it's a lot cheaper to later upgrade such a chip, because you don't have to buy an entirely new chip to get the features that were disabled on your old one. Given the two options, I'd choose this one.
Wouldn't say it's a hoax... This keyboard PC has been on the market for years. This company sells it as the ZPC (for Zero-footprint PC).
Frankly, I wondered why it took so long for someone to decide to rebadge one as a Commodore. It was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it.
You can still purchase and operate your own vehicle without government "permission" - even without insurance! - on your own property. Just not on public (government-owned) roads.
So, I've been playing an account on EVE for a little more than a week. I have more than one ship, and have based myself where there is both high and low security systems around me. If I want to mine for a while but have other stuff to do, I send out my Wreathe into high security space and read my email as the mining laser chops away asteroids. Even if by chance I get attacked by some jerk who suicide bombs miners in 1.0 regions just for the joy of causing others grief, I have enough saved money to replace everything I have, and it only takes a couple mining trips to make it up again. (I'm upgrading away from the Wreathe tomorrow, though - I've been training skills for flying the mining barges, and will be able to do in 5 minutes what took 50 before. Training skills while you sleep is a nice feature.)
I have a destroyer as well that I've been using for running missions. I keep a salvager onboard and have made as much money salvaging the wrecks of NPC ships during missions as I have mining, so I haven't even sent the mining ship out in a couple days. Even last night when I lost my destroyer (was playing on a slow laptop for convenience, hard to warp out in time) I was still revenue positive for the mission after buying a complete replacement ship, finishing the job, and mopping up the wrecks.
Am I out there in massive fleet fights against player who have been playing for years longer than I have? Nope. Haven't ventured beyond 0.4 space yet (and that one taught me a lesson about using the in-game map before wandering around systems), haven't joined any of the big player corporations, and I'm having fun.
Then again, I liked Elite II: Frontier back in the '90s. At least the space combat isn't that tedious.
and with several lives lost, I'd imagine.
Can we cut this part of the argument out, please?
Several people loose their lives every hour of every day commuting from the suburbs to some office job in the big city. Let the astronauts worry about the risk of the job they've chosen and whether they feel it is worth it. And then ask me if I think my current job is worth the risk I take when I get into my Civic every day and venture out onto the roads filled with super-cab trucks and SUVs.
Hm. I've got an Equity I and I+ (with HD!). Maybe we should start a group...
Much like you said, I've got collections of old systems myself, and while some are significant in a universal way - an Osborne portable, for example - most are only significant to me.
The Equity I+ has actually seen some use, along with a Tandy almost-PC-compatible that my kids used to play Wheel of Fortune on a couple years ago. While they're nothing special, they are the oldest PC systems I have in working order, and I never had much PC experience until Win95 days. The PC XT and Dell XT clone I have were both given to me already pulled for parts, and I haven't scrounged up the stuff to make them whole again, although they are the more "important" systems.
So far just about every generic 2/3/486 I've come across has gone off for scrap, though.
My employer (a hospital) has a clear policy: As long as you are not on the clock, and you do not violate any laws, you may use the computer, internet, telephone, etc for personal use. I am writing this during my lunch time, for example.
And yes, the policy also states any such use can be monitored and revoked.
When I had a hard drive go bad, I threw a lastest-release distribution on a 1-year-old laptop and it was staggeringly slow. That experiment quickly ended and XP was promptly re-installed.
Even back in 2002, the last time I had a full-time Linux router/firewall/server running, it was difficult to keep upgrading on the same 6+ year old hardware. I gave up and bought a consumer router instead, because I didn't want to deal with the wierd issues that would creep up with new kernel releases, and the system kept taking up more RAM and CPU resources. So, no, it isn't just a matter of continually upgrading to the most recent version.
True, but Pike was captured after Nero had already arrived at Vulcan, defeated whatever defenses were there, and the four other starships that had come from Earth. I stand by my first point that Vulcan must not have had substantial defenses of their own, and while Earth was more fortified (Nero was insistant on having the "codes" for them, after all) he was able to neutralize these defenses before/when he arrived.
Now my brain hurts. Thanks a lot.
Ah, but the holodeck scene set up the conference room scene later on, where Whats-her-name-from-past-Earth changes Picard's plan with the thought-provoking dialogue that the TOS movies and TNG were made of, quoting classic literature and all.
The action didn't replace the traditional Trek recipe of social commentary, it was added to it - and that's what made ST II and VI, for example, the best films of the bunch for many fans.
I think #1-5 are plausable, and #6 was actually nothing new.
1. Suppose part of this can be due to Vulcans being pacifists, and the other to the Naranda having 100 years newer technology.
2. I am assuming Pike gave him the codes, which apparently let him deactivate the defenses.
3. It is likely that it would take some time for the moon's orbit to decay - for all we know, it did get destroyed a couple days later. Remember, there's little mass to absorb once the planet has been swallowed, so the black hole won't continue to grow at a fast rate.
4. The Naranda was orbiting Earth when it was drilling Earth. It warped away to chase Spock's ship. I don't think they revealed where they stopped.
5. I think it did, actually. It didn't pursue the shuttles, for example. It had 25 years to repair before we see it in action again.
6. I agree this was stupid, but it isn't correct to say Star Trek has had consistency of distance and time. When convenient for the plot for it to take a long time to get from place A to place B, it will, and the opposite is true as well. Even in the advanced future of TNG, it takes days to get from place to place, and often contributes stress to decisions. But in First Contact, the Enterprise-E is assigned to patrol the Romulan neutral zone and zips back to Earth in mere minutes, just in time to rally the fleet and destroy the Borg Cube. Say what?
I'm surprised you didn't mention the super-supernova that somehow threatened the entire known galaxy. And that they couldn't predict the expansion of said supernova well enough to know it would destroy Romulus before Spock's ship could make it. Maybe Spock is just a bad story-teller in his old age, though, and mixed up some of the details. (sigh)
And, of course, the paradox stuff about altering the past. If Spock never offers to save the Romulans - say, Ambassador Spock's overtures for reconcilliation between Vulcan and Romulus in TNG never happen - there won't be ill-will from Nero and won't be a superweapon to abuse, so will everyone suddenly wake up the next day back in "our" Trek universe again, with no clue it ever happened (except Guinan)? But, no, because if the timeline hadn't changed, then Spock and Nero would have...
(Will he have to find a way to create the situation again, dragging Nero and himself into the black hole too late to save Romulus, knowing it will directly lead to the destruction of his home planet and the death of his mother? Man, talk about payback.)
The nagging thing that bothers me the most, though, was the flash promotion from cadet-facing-expulsion to Captain in command of the Federation flagship. It was beyond excessive, it's flat out absurd. In STIV, Kirk saved Earth and was still demoted two ranks for his misconduct in STIII.
Still, a good movie overall. They borked the science a bit more than traditional Trek did, although they did finally realize that you can't hear in vacuum and that there is no "up" in space. Unlike some "reboots" that simply ignore the fact they are changing a story that has already been told, at least there was a plot behind it that was consistent with the existing universe. And there were far more moments that stayed true to what little pre-TOS canon we have (for example, Spock's childhood scenes were almost verbatim from the animated series episode "Yesteryear") than went counter to it (Spock and Uhura? WTF?).
that other planet is covered in ice. Not the most hospitable environment for supporting off-world population.
And in particular, we're talking about Vulcans here, which means it would be even less hospitable for them than it would be for your average Terran.
Uh... The service creates an index of all your music files and lets you stream that list of music for free. Then, you can pay $0.10/song to add songs you don't own into the playlist. That's the DRM part - you are restricted from saving the streaming-only songs to your PC or PMP.
Or you can "buy" and download DRM-free MP3s for a couple bucks, like an ordinary music store.
Where's the cumbersome and painful part again?
No, it hasn't.
There was an outbreak of an influenza that was named swine flu at Fort Dix in the past. It didn't spread (although I've read it lead to a vaccine campaign that was linked to Guillain-Barre symdrome).
This form of influenza is not the same as the swine flu that happened then, just like this year's other predominant "human" influenza strains are not the same as the ones last year, or the year before. (Sometimes they do last for more than one year, but it is not a common occurance.)
Um, they did the same thing with Vista. The RC was public and came with a year expiration also.
Not only that, but going to the launch expos they had across the country, they passed out free Vista "RTM" discs (confusing because it was not the actual OEM or retail disc) with another year license (plus a full license to Office 2k7).
Dude, you forgot the NO CARRIER part.
Yeah, the initial default judgement was entered in November.
Status hearing held. Oral motion by Plaintiff's counsel for entry of default as to defendant is granted. It is hereby ordered that default is entered against Defendant, Jason Fortuny for failure appear or answer. Damages hearing is set for 1/7/2009 at 9:30AM.
A motion to dismiss was filed with the court in December, that was dated as written in October, but it was already too late by then. He didn't show up to the damages hearing either, thus the plaintiff got everything they asked for.
Lesson to be learned: If you have a court date, SHOW UP.