Why does this crap get modded up? Look, Starforce is an overbearing hog of a copy protection. It has been associated with system instability, and there may very well be some merit to those claims. But causing hardware failure? That reminds me of my friend who tells me he has a virus whenever his system slows down.
Look, I'm not going to say with 100% certainty that SF3 did not cause your CD-ROM to go tits up and grind to a halt, but SF3 did not cause your CD-ROM to go tits up and grind to a halt. What happened was almost certainly a failure of moving components from phsyical causes coinciding with you playing POP3.
To be fair, there is really no such thing as a system that can withstand an attacker who has physical access regardless of what OS you're running. Once an attacker has physical access, all bets are off.
Well, it only took 4 years to finally certify XP. Although I guess that's not bad when you consider that in another 4 years they'll have Vista to start evaluating.
There's not much grey area, at least in the US, especially when you consider that many P2P clients will share out, at the very least, the files you downloaded unless you specifically take measures to prevent it, possibly including manually removing each download, which can be more of a PITA than just ripping it yourself. (How's that for a runon sentence?) I would never recommend that anyone use P2P for sharing copyrighted information without permission from the copyright holder, even if it's to obtain a copy of something you already own. The only grey area is whether or not you'll get caught.
It's not the market's job to sort out standards, it's the developers/engineers. Markets do a horrible job at picking standards when they're forced to (because they're subject to marketing) and unnessecary choices just steer people away from the technology entirely.
I don't think putting a display on the box itself could be considered advertising. (At least, not beyond the (not so?) obvious fact that the packaging is already an advertisement for the product inside). Otherwise you'd have a bunch of brown boxes at the toy store.
When pressed, IE developers admitted that this might not end with RSS icons. "We just have trouble coming up with any ideas of our own period," they were quoted as saying. "Yesterday it was tabbed browsing, today it's an RSS icon.. who knows, maybe one day we'll implement stability."
Good points all, but the Federalists were right. As were the anti-Federalists. They both had valid points, thus the Ninth Amendment which Madison hoped would address the concerns of both sides. Unfortunately, neither strategy has been a resounding success. All things considered, I am grateful to have the Bill of Rights, but it is truely impossible to enumerate all rights. Some level of wisdom and foresight is necessary to discriminate between laws which are helpful and those which are harmful, and it is necessary to elect people who possess those qualities. It is further unfortunate that most of the people who possess those qualities know better than to get involved in politics.
Can't say I blame him. RAID is more trouble than it's worth, except perhaps a RAID5 arrangement. Frankly, I'm surprised more people's heads haven't exploded because of it.
I am not saying you shouldn't fight to keep your privacy, but it is not taking away a right, it is taking away a luxury, that we enjoy.
Looks like the Federalists were right.
Aside from contending that a bill of rights was unnecessary, the Federalists responded to those opposing ratification of the Constitution because of the lack of a declaration of fundamental rights by arguing that inasmuch as it would be impossible to list all rights it would be dangerous to list some because there would be those who would seize on the absence of the omitted rights to assert that government was unrestrained as to those. -http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/a mendment09/
The argument that privacy is not a right is based on the fallacious idea that our rights are limited to those listed in the Bill of Rights. The 9th Amendment is pretty straightforward: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. (Emphasis mine).
There are only two possible rational interpretations: First, that all actions are rights unless that action is explicitly prohibited, or Second, that there is a mystical list of "other rights" floating around somewhere that nobody knows about, except obviously you, and maybe some other people in government.
Well, he may have held a boring-but-legal job at the same time, and/or made money off of investing some of that $5M.. who knows? Any way you cut it, this guy got a slap on the wrist, especially when you consider how many hacking/cracking groups get jail time for their non-profit efforts. If anything, you'd expect the opposite. The moral of the story seems to be: If you're going to break the law, make sure you do it as a business.
Peterson has agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $5,402,448.
Yeah that sucks, except..
Documents submitted by the US Attorney state that Peterson made $5.6 million selling pirated software with a total retail price of just under $20 million.
I triple checked my work, but I keep coming up with a $198 thousand dollar profit. That'll teach him.
In essence, a plasma double layer is the electrostatic equivalent of a waterfall.
Ok, I'm no physicist, but do we really need a double layered plasma engine to throw rockets over the side of a cliff?
Also, doesn't a waterfall transfer the energy back to the earth when those water molecules collide with the ground (minus losses). It doesn't create energy, and the net gain is zero. If if wasn't, you could create a perpetual motion machine by harnessing the energy of the falling water to carry more water back up the cliff/hill. So either I'm misunderstanding something, or the waterfall is a horrible analogy, because it takes as much (theoretically) or more (practically) energy to lift the water to the elevated state than you could gain by harnessing the energy of it falling.
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I stand corrected.
Ah, just like this.
(It's ok, no goatse there... yet).
Why does this crap get modded up? Look, Starforce is an overbearing hog of a copy protection. It has been associated with system instability, and there may very well be some merit to those claims. But causing hardware failure? That reminds me of my friend who tells me he has a virus whenever his system slows down.
Look, I'm not going to say with 100% certainty that SF3 did not cause your CD-ROM to go tits up and grind to a halt, but SF3 did not cause your CD-ROM to go tits up and grind to a halt. What happened was almost certainly a failure of moving components from phsyical causes coinciding with you playing POP3.
I'm sorry, what was that last bit again?
To be fair, there is really no such thing as a system that can withstand an attacker who has physical access regardless of what OS you're running. Once an attacker has physical access, all bets are off.
Well, it only took 4 years to finally certify XP. Although I guess that's not bad when you consider that in another 4 years they'll have Vista to start evaluating.
You keep using that word, innovative. I do not think it means what you think it means.
There's not much grey area, at least in the US, especially when you consider that many P2P clients will share out, at the very least, the files you downloaded unless you specifically take measures to prevent it, possibly including manually removing each download, which can be more of a PITA than just ripping it yourself. (How's that for a runon sentence?) I would never recommend that anyone use P2P for sharing copyrighted information without permission from the copyright holder, even if it's to obtain a copy of something you already own. The only grey area is whether or not you'll get caught.
If in doubt.. http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1024
It's not the market's job to sort out standards, it's the developers/engineers. Markets do a horrible job at picking standards when they're forced to (because they're subject to marketing) and unnessecary choices just steer people away from the technology entirely.
I don't think putting a display on the box itself could be considered advertising. (At least, not beyond the (not so?) obvious fact that the packaging is already an advertisement for the product inside). Otherwise you'd have a bunch of brown boxes at the toy store.
till someone hacks the boxes to display goatse.
When pressed, IE developers admitted that this might not end with RSS icons. "We just have trouble coming up with any ideas of our own period," they were quoted as saying. "Yesterday it was tabbed browsing, today it's an RSS icon.. who knows, maybe one day we'll implement stability."
Good points all, but the Federalists were right. As were the anti-Federalists. They both had valid points, thus the Ninth Amendment which Madison hoped would address the concerns of both sides. Unfortunately, neither strategy has been a resounding success. All things considered, I am grateful to have the Bill of Rights, but it is truely impossible to enumerate all rights. Some level of wisdom and foresight is necessary to discriminate between laws which are helpful and those which are harmful, and it is necessary to elect people who possess those qualities. It is further unfortunate that most of the people who possess those qualities know better than to get involved in politics.
Can't say I blame him. RAID is more trouble than it's worth, except perhaps a RAID5 arrangement. Frankly, I'm surprised more people's heads haven't exploded because of it.
Yeah, I'm guessing I got modded down by a robot too. You can watch a clip of the commercial here by the way. (Quicktime or equivelant required).
Looks like the Federalists were right.The argument that privacy is not a right is based on the fallacious idea that our rights are limited to those listed in the Bill of Rights. The 9th Amendment is pretty straightforward: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. (Emphasis mine).
There are only two possible rational interpretations: First, that all actions are rights unless that action is explicitly prohibited, or Second, that there is a mystical list of "other rights" floating around somewhere that nobody knows about, except obviously you, and maybe some other people in government.
Beverly Hills? That's where I want to be.. The truth is I don't stand a chance. It's something that you're born into and I just don't belong.
someone who used your computer while they were over your house
Damn those wi-fliers!
Well, he may have held a boring-but-legal job at the same time, and/or made money off of investing some of that $5M.. who knows? Any way you cut it, this guy got a slap on the wrist, especially when you consider how many hacking/cracking groups get jail time for their non-profit efforts. If anything, you'd expect the opposite. The moral of the story seems to be: If you're going to break the law, make sure you do it as a business.
Encyclopedia are *never* an acceptable reference for a paper.
That's why I never list them in my bibliography.
Honda's ASIMO can now run at 6 kph.
So what you're saying is, Asimo can now keep up with the elderly and infirm?
iBackup? iWish iDthoughtathat..
Peterson has agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $5,402,448.
Yeah that sucks, except..
Documents submitted by the US Attorney state that Peterson made $5.6
million selling pirated software with a total retail price of just under $20
million.
I triple checked my work, but I keep coming up with a $198 thousand dollar profit. That'll teach him.
In essence, a plasma double layer is the electrostatic equivalent of a waterfall.
Ok, I'm no physicist, but do we really need a double layered plasma engine to throw rockets over the side of a cliff?
Also, doesn't a waterfall transfer the energy back to the earth when those water molecules collide with the ground (minus losses). It doesn't create energy, and the net gain is zero. If if wasn't, you could create a perpetual motion machine by harnessing the energy of the falling water to carry more water back up the cliff/hill. So either I'm misunderstanding something, or the waterfall is a horrible analogy, because it takes as much (theoretically) or more (practically) energy to lift the water to the elevated state than you could gain by harnessing the energy of it falling.
Though shy of humans, the animals are quite social.
Man, it must suck to have to worry about not only being fun and charming, but not accidentally stabbing your date in the face as well.
Yeah, but I bet they could save a ton of money if they just went with one very large balloon!