Doom modders had apps to do this with Doom and Doom2 as well... a WAD had to have *every* floor and ceiling tile if it had any, so modders found a way to distribute a small WAD and an app that would copy the licensed stuff at the user's machine prior to running. DEUSF was the one I used a lot.
Likewise, Sharp Zaurus users were in a constant battle to keep / reinstall Opera and the office suite it was delivered with as we upgraded to various alternative ROMs, and some of the recommended ways to do this involved extractor programs that the user could use with the officially published Sharp ROM files.
All that said, it's a lot clumsier for the user than just having the app / content bundled, which was free to the owner of the original program / device, and this is one of those examples of why copyright law, copyright lawyers, and the cultural phenomenon of "intellectual property" are scoffed at openly by many and in need of major overhaul. The company who sold something to the purchaser then insists the purchaser jump through hoops to use what they purchased... hoops that have no technological necessity, nor any benefit in terms of monetary exchange, etc... The technological wizards who have to change their distribution of alternative content or OSes aren't inconvenienced much... just the many paying customers. Who won what in these situations?
Richard Hatch also expressed a *lot* of dislike for the re-imagining of BSG shortly after the mini-series when he spoke at Dragon*Con. I think he got over it at some point though...:-)
Where will we go to buy soldering irons and those RCA to headphone jack adapters now?
Harbor Freight and Dollar Tree, respectively. Cheaper, and with great additional selection, albeit less convenient if you happened to need both items at the same time.
Seriously though, for electronic components "right now," I still visit "the Shack" and wish them well at continuing to exist in that less and less well-served niche. As for the rest of what they sell? They seriously need to keep re-evaluating until they find some items or services they can sell competitively in their stores... I know of no one who thinks "Radio Shack" for cellphones, computers, AV, etc... Here's a thought: certain small, rarer PC items could be stocked in a small store and sold at prices that are justifyably above bargain for the "right now" benefit. When I can get some standard USB cables at Dollar Tree, Radio Shack needs to sell all the varieties of USB this to USB that cables for $3... if they did, I'd have visited several more times in the last year, where I might have also noticed other decent deals on items I might need right after a failure, like a PSU, etc..
And I'd like a pony.:-) Still, I think the long-term customer relationship with anyone who needs electronic and computer bits where that person repeatedly buys there for the "have it now" benefit would be a better strategy than selling an overpriced computer to an unwary customer once in a while, who, after getting laughed at by their friends and family, never does that again.
Between the SEC and the FTC, over one billion US tax dollars are allocated. We've all seen so many wonderful examples of the beautiful outcome when large entities combine and partner... GM, AOL/Time Warner, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. So, what are those departments for? What are they doing? I'd like some Change(tm), please.
Tell Mario's story from the beginning. The games were released as "have the most fun with current technology and great music" and plots / characters that were visually fun, but what an opportunity. Mario is an earth human, but the latest games have him so far removed from that. Dude was a zoo keeper who's girlfriend was abducted by a gorilla. Then he was a plumber dealing with some odd creatures in a basement / sewer along side his brother. Then the acid trips and the mushrooms began. However they tell it, if they retell the story starting on Earth, with a guy and his brother it could be really enjoyable to old fans and new. Imagine a game using something like the Super Paper Mario engine, but beginning with a phone call to a plumber...
Good points, but I think this is where things get really muddled. Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion are together in the first amendment. And, from what I hear the "authorities" in several religious organizations declaring openly, I'd say certain types of lies get special protection... and by categorically protecting such lies due to the speakers' conviction of their truth, such sorts of declarations based on ones' convictions, rational or not, true or not, fall into an odd category here in the US.
Funny enough, any subscriber to any of those religions will think the declarations made by followers of the other religions are false, much like atheists, agnostics, and others will consider most such claims from anyone.
Freedom of Speech isn't just Freedom of Rational Speech, but I believe this is a good thing. Stupidity and irrational thought *need* to see the light of day so that they can be shot down, exposed, etc... I'm glad KKK members and the like can go on Jerry Springer to share their viewpoints. In places where such talk is flat out banned, that kind of talk is "subversive," "suppressed," "underground," and thereby romanticized. I think the major problem is when, in democratic systems, mob rule shuts down rational speech because the masses find it unpalletable. I saw this example today: http://www.inquisitr.com/28336/florida-christians-protest-atheist-billboard-wait-till-you-see-the-sign/
Do extra, voluntary action to cooperate with the police state in legitimizing the "papers please" nonsense, and get exactly what you deserve.
It started as a simple excuse to lock you into your ticket purchases. It still has that negative effect, and not a single positive. After all, matching ID to ticket had been done for decades leading to, and of course on, 9/11.
Personally, I would make it a short one line email, "Is this domain for sale? If so, please respond with your asking price", then just take it from there.
Perhaps also simulate bad grammar and spelling, etc... to play upon any assumed correllation between education and wealth. Although that might cut both ways if they assume you're a sucker.
As sad and ridiculous as this saga has been...
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... I would still rather see my tax dollars spent on bailing out this failure instead of General Motors, et al.:-)
When the PHPBB2 CAPTCHA became completely useless and I was seeing hundreds of bot registrations on a forum I ran, I built something else. I added a simple extra text field to the registration form. I ask a plain English question, giving away the answer, and require the user to write it in the blank.
i.e. What is the common name for a domesticated feline? (Starts with "c" and ends with "at" This is an anti-spam measure)
The field is checked for the right answer on the post-processing. This stopped 100% of the fake registrations. I ended up doing this on practically every web-accessible form I have built since then, and I've seen the method pop up on other people's websites as well (certainly parallel evolution rather than "they got it from me").
I've been seeing Slashdot posts "screaming" about this and other nasty things that've come about since Obama took office, as well as years ago when Clinton was in office. Hell, if you're gonna call the Slashdot crowd some kind of party follower, Libertarian is the obvious choice. Wait for the crickets to chirp when President Ron Paul III does something nasty in 2056.:-)
People are under the mistaken impression that Fox is an entertainment company producing shows as a product for viewers who are their customers. Incorrect.
Fox is a media company, and their product is viewers, which they sell to advertisers, their actual customers. Apply this knowledge to "news" channels, etc... and you'll understand a lot.
That business model means that any actual quality entertainment is a fluke. Especially if it's something deemed such quality that a small demographic really enjoys it... that is never their goal. Understanding this, one can look for quality entertainment in books, or films and shows *after* they aired and were reviewed well, despite the system.
The interesting question is not "why does Fox screw up at something outside of their goals." The interesting question is "what method of funding and creating shows as quality entertainment might be sustainable as a business that we could flock to?" Distributed digital patronage or something? Maybe I should submit that as an Ask Slashdot.
The US really shouldn't allow things like in-home laboratories... This is no longer the time for developments the likes of which this guy was involved in. Really, read the second paragraph. Does the US want that kind of person and those kinds of developments occurring in our country again? We need to focus on watching TV a bit better.
Find your local 2600 chapter and see if they have a mailing list / forum. Post what you want to get rid of; deliver at the next meeting. Depending on the size and level of activity of your local group, you might find takers immediately. Even without mailing list response, you'll probably find takers for all of it at the meeting.
Never have I seen whites and minorities live more harmoniously that in Georgia (the ghettoization of minorities in northern cities is NOT "harmony").
Wow... Maybe you were in Atlanta or something. I attended high school in the aforementioned Effingham County in the mid-1990s, after moving there from southern California. The racism in that area astounded me. I was shocked and disgusted during my entire time there. There was "harmony" in that black people everywhere exhibited a constant air of fear and overt politeness. There was nearly zero social crossover between populations. The bloody high school even had officially separate Black and White prom queen and king elections, I shit you not. People wrote essays about the "War of Northern Agression" for class projects, etc... The high school mascot was a confederate soldier... My dad found KKK meeting announcements on break-room bulletin boards at his job in Savannah. I am not making any of this up. People joke about it, but it's because of the ring of truth to it. It's seriously messed up, and I doubt it has improved significantly over the last decade.
Glofish are the same species, with a genetic hack to express green, yellow, or red flourescent protien in their muscle tissue. After the initial release of the red ones, which still had the black and silvery pigment expressions, and had bad reviews for being "dim", the company that "makes" them switched their stock to ones that expressed the flourescent protien coupled with these same types of albinism. Glofish purchased now days are very brightly colored as a result of no competing layers of skin pigment.
If you cross breed a bunch of them, including second gen cross breeds (with regular zebrafish stock) you will get a few of these albino/clearish fish. Pretty neat that anyone can get going with the same type of hackery with a $4 fish purchase from Walmart.:-)
When the "cybersquatting" laws and rules, etc... went into effect, everyone knew it was corporate protectionism bullshit and most individual people would be shafted, rather than protected from the practice. Now, this blatant, predatory behavior from a company that is allowed a trusted level of Internet access demands a response. Because that response will not come from an orderly, pre-defined process, or "representatives" at a corporate or governmental level, it will have to come from elsewhere.
Network Solutions should be removed from the Internet for the good of the Internet. By whatever means.
And yes, I've been burned by exactly this kind of asshat behavior, a year and a half ago, along with every time I see an already squatted-on domain. It's one thing when perpetrated by predatory people out there akin to spammers... It's quite another when an organization at this level violates the trust given it to act in the same way.
I'd seriously like to know what technical, etc... means exist to completely remove their influence from the Internet. Maybe this will be the straw that results in people adopting alternative DNS, etc... I'd love to see a thread develop with a functional response.
I have a vehicle built in 1981 and I know the electronics on it pretty well. The idle controller is the only part with ICs besides the modern stereo and car PC, and I believe it will simply idle rough without that controller functioning. My steering is rack and pinion, my auto transmission computer has nothing more advanced than a transistor; same for the door lock controller. Everything else is vaccum, steel cable, etc... So the date value for vehicles that are impervious to this attack can be set a little further forward.
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Doom modders had apps to do this with Doom and Doom2 as well... a WAD had to have *every* floor and ceiling tile if it had any, so modders found a way to distribute a small WAD and an app that would copy the licensed stuff at the user's machine prior to running. DEUSF was the one I used a lot.
Likewise, Sharp Zaurus users were in a constant battle to keep / reinstall Opera and the office suite it was delivered with as we upgraded to various alternative ROMs, and some of the recommended ways to do this involved extractor programs that the user could use with the officially published Sharp ROM files.
All that said, it's a lot clumsier for the user than just having the app / content bundled, which was free to the owner of the original program / device, and this is one of those examples of why copyright law, copyright lawyers, and the cultural phenomenon of "intellectual property" are scoffed at openly by many and in need of major overhaul. The company who sold something to the purchaser then insists the purchaser jump through hoops to use what they purchased... hoops that have no technological necessity, nor any benefit in terms of monetary exchange, etc... The technological wizards who have to change their distribution of alternative content or OSes aren't inconvenienced much... just the many paying customers. Who won what in these situations?
Richard Hatch also expressed a *lot* of dislike for the re-imagining of BSG shortly after the mini-series when he spoke at Dragon*Con. I think he got over it at some point though... :-)
Plant cells have cell walls beyond the cell membrane. Animal cells just have the membranes. Drat. :-)
Harbor Freight and Dollar Tree, respectively. Cheaper, and with great additional selection, albeit less convenient if you happened to need both items at the same time.
Seriously though, for electronic components "right now," I still visit "the Shack" and wish them well at continuing to exist in that less and less well-served niche. As for the rest of what they sell? They seriously need to keep re-evaluating until they find some items or services they can sell competitively in their stores... I know of no one who thinks "Radio Shack" for cellphones, computers, AV, etc... Here's a thought: certain small, rarer PC items could be stocked in a small store and sold at prices that are justifyably above bargain for the "right now" benefit. When I can get some standard USB cables at Dollar Tree, Radio Shack needs to sell all the varieties of USB this to USB that cables for $3... if they did, I'd have visited several more times in the last year, where I might have also noticed other decent deals on items I might need right after a failure, like a PSU, etc..
And I'd like a pony. :-) Still, I think the long-term customer relationship with anyone who needs electronic and computer bits where that person repeatedly buys there for the "have it now" benefit would be a better strategy than selling an overpriced computer to an unwary customer once in a while, who, after getting laughed at by their friends and family, never does that again.
Between the SEC and the FTC, over one billion US tax dollars are allocated. We've all seen so many wonderful examples of the beautiful outcome when large entities combine and partner... GM, AOL/Time Warner, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. So, what are those departments for? What are they doing? I'd like some Change(tm), please.
Tell Mario's story from the beginning. The games were released as "have the most fun with current technology and great music" and plots / characters that were visually fun, but what an opportunity. Mario is an earth human, but the latest games have him so far removed from that. Dude was a zoo keeper who's girlfriend was abducted by a gorilla. Then he was a plumber dealing with some odd creatures in a basement / sewer along side his brother. Then the acid trips and the mushrooms began. However they tell it, if they retell the story starting on Earth, with a guy and his brother it could be really enjoyable to old fans and new. Imagine a game using something like the Super Paper Mario engine, but beginning with a phone call to a plumber...
That or Captain Comic. :-)
Good points, but I think this is where things get really muddled. Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion are together in the first amendment. And, from what I hear the "authorities" in several religious organizations declaring openly, I'd say certain types of lies get special protection... and by categorically protecting such lies due to the speakers' conviction of their truth, such sorts of declarations based on ones' convictions, rational or not, true or not, fall into an odd category here in the US.
Funny enough, any subscriber to any of those religions will think the declarations made by followers of the other religions are false, much like atheists, agnostics, and others will consider most such claims from anyone.
Freedom of Speech isn't just Freedom of Rational Speech, but I believe this is a good thing. Stupidity and irrational thought *need* to see the light of day so that they can be shot down, exposed, etc... I'm glad KKK members and the like can go on Jerry Springer to share their viewpoints. In places where such talk is flat out banned, that kind of talk is "subversive," "suppressed," "underground," and thereby romanticized. I think the major problem is when, in democratic systems, mob rule shuts down rational speech because the masses find it unpalletable. I saw this example today: http://www.inquisitr.com/28336/florida-christians-protest-atheist-billboard-wait-till-you-see-the-sign/
Do extra, voluntary action to cooperate with the police state in legitimizing the "papers please" nonsense, and get exactly what you deserve.
It started as a simple excuse to lock you into your ticket purchases. It still has that negative effect, and not a single positive. After all, matching ID to ticket had been done for decades leading to, and of course on, 9/11.
Personally, I would make it a short one line email, "Is this domain for sale? If so, please respond with your asking price", then just take it from there.
Perhaps also simulate bad grammar and spelling, etc... to play upon any assumed correllation between education and wealth. Although that might cut both ways if they assume you're a sucker.
... I would still rather see my tax dollars spent on bailing out this failure instead of General Motors, et al. :-)
When the PHPBB2 CAPTCHA became completely useless and I was seeing hundreds of bot registrations on a forum I ran, I built something else. I added a simple extra text field to the registration form. I ask a plain English question, giving away the answer, and require the user to write it in the blank.
i.e. What is the common name for a domesticated feline? (Starts with "c" and ends with "at" This is an anti-spam measure)
The field is checked for the right answer on the post-processing. This stopped 100% of the fake registrations. I ended up doing this on practically every web-accessible form I have built since then, and I've seen the method pop up on other people's websites as well (certainly parallel evolution rather than "they got it from me").
I've been seeing Slashdot posts "screaming" about this and other nasty things that've come about since Obama took office, as well as years ago when Clinton was in office. Hell, if you're gonna call the Slashdot crowd some kind of party follower, Libertarian is the obvious choice. Wait for the crickets to chirp when President Ron Paul III does something nasty in 2056. :-)
Challenge the denial; have the media bump this question up to the whitehouse press secretary; demand an actual response from Obama.
The media will not be bringing copyright issues up with the President nor the People.
People are under the mistaken impression that Fox is an entertainment company producing shows as a product for viewers who are their customers. Incorrect.
Fox is a media company, and their product is viewers, which they sell to advertisers, their actual customers. Apply this knowledge to "news" channels, etc... and you'll understand a lot.
That business model means that any actual quality entertainment is a fluke. Especially if it's something deemed such quality that a small demographic really enjoys it... that is never their goal. Understanding this, one can look for quality entertainment in books, or films and shows *after* they aired and were reviewed well, despite the system.
The interesting question is not "why does Fox screw up at something outside of their goals." The interesting question is "what method of funding and creating shows as quality entertainment might be sustainable as a business that we could flock to?" Distributed digital patronage or something? Maybe I should submit that as an Ask Slashdot.
The US really shouldn't allow things like in-home laboratories... This is no longer the time for developments the likes of which this guy was involved in. Really, read the second paragraph. Does the US want that kind of person and those kinds of developments occurring in our country again? We need to focus on watching TV a bit better.
Find your local 2600 chapter and see if they have a mailing list / forum. Post what you want to get rid of; deliver at the next meeting. Depending on the size and level of activity of your local group, you might find takers immediately. Even without mailing list response, you'll probably find takers for all of it at the meeting.
Never have I seen whites and minorities live more harmoniously that in Georgia (the ghettoization of minorities in northern cities is NOT "harmony").
Wow... Maybe you were in Atlanta or something. I attended high school in the aforementioned Effingham County in the mid-1990s, after moving there from southern California. The racism in that area astounded me. I was shocked and disgusted during my entire time there. There was "harmony" in that black people everywhere exhibited a constant air of fear and overt politeness. There was nearly zero social crossover between populations. The bloody high school even had officially separate Black and White prom queen and king elections, I shit you not. People wrote essays about the "War of Northern Agression" for class projects, etc... The high school mascot was a confederate soldier... My dad found KKK meeting announcements on break-room bulletin boards at his job in Savannah. I am not making any of this up. People joke about it, but it's because of the ring of truth to it. It's seriously messed up, and I doubt it has improved significantly over the last decade.
1) Snatch up some of these foreclosing homes
:-)
2) Make them burglary honeypots
3) Harvest your catches
4) Profit!
No ???? needed!
Ron Paul!!!! ?
How to eliminate MTS (and ramshorns, and pond snails, and any algae wafers with a quickness):
Add one Crawfish*
*Make sure lid is secure and wire pathways small. They have excellent escape tactics... albiet poor strategy
2 10g, 1 20L coffee table, 1 1g, and various clear bucket sorts of breeding / quarantine tanks
Glofish are the same species, with a genetic hack to express green, yellow, or red flourescent protien in their muscle tissue. After the initial release of the red ones, which still had the black and silvery pigment expressions, and had bad reviews for being "dim", the company that "makes" them switched their stock to ones that expressed the flourescent protien coupled with these same types of albinism. Glofish purchased now days are very brightly colored as a result of no competing layers of skin pigment.
:-)
If you cross breed a bunch of them, including second gen cross breeds (with regular zebrafish stock) you will get a few of these albino/clearish fish. Pretty neat that anyone can get going with the same type of hackery with a $4 fish purchase from Walmart.
Anyone over 50 is jussssst fine.
When the "cybersquatting" laws and rules, etc... went into effect, everyone knew it was corporate protectionism bullshit and most individual people would be shafted, rather than protected from the practice. Now, this blatant, predatory behavior from a company that is allowed a trusted level of Internet access demands a response. Because that response will not come from an orderly, pre-defined process, or "representatives" at a corporate or governmental level, it will have to come from elsewhere.
Network Solutions should be removed from the Internet for the good of the Internet. By whatever means.
And yes, I've been burned by exactly this kind of asshat behavior, a year and a half ago, along with every time I see an already squatted-on domain. It's one thing when perpetrated by predatory people out there akin to spammers... It's quite another when an organization at this level violates the trust given it to act in the same way.
I'd seriously like to know what technical, etc... means exist to completely remove their influence from the Internet. Maybe this will be the straw that results in people adopting alternative DNS, etc... I'd love to see a thread develop with a functional response.
... but not as funny as watching random people claim they founded Popeye's Chicken, like here and here.
I have a vehicle built in 1981 and I know the electronics on it pretty well. The idle controller is the only part with ICs besides the modern stereo and car PC, and I believe it will simply idle rough without that controller functioning. My steering is rack and pinion, my auto transmission computer has nothing more advanced than a transistor; same for the door lock controller. Everything else is vaccum, steel cable, etc... So the date value for vehicles that are impervious to this attack can be set a little further forward.