Do you actually KNOW anyone who has a modded xbox who DOESN'T use it for pirated games?
Yes. Me.
I installed a modchip in my XBox specifically so that I could run XBMC. I have used it precisely once to play an XBox game which I ripped from a game I purchased to see how it performed. Since then, I have used it exclusively to stream music to my stereo, as the UI is better than any of the other devices I had tried.
I only decided to hack my XBox after I realized I hadn't played games on it in several months. All of my gaming now is on my DS.
In the case of the shopping channels, most often you're not only not paying for them, the channel creator actually pays the cable company to carry the station. This is why the even the lowest tier offered by the cable company includes all of the shopping channels.
In addition, often times the content providers write into the cable companies contracts bundling requirements. For example, if a given tier includes ESPN, then it must also include ABC Family (not necessarily true for those exact two channels, but the idea is true). So in those cases, your cable company is contractually forbidden from selling you just one of the channels.
This comes up all of the time, and the situation hasn't changed.
(Hint: don't say "well, kids buy cigarettes from stores who don't check age", because both stores selling the smokes to kids and kids using credit cards are illegal.)
What law makes using credit cards by kids illegal? I've had a credit card since I was 14, and used it regularly while I was a minor. Granted, this was a second card on my father's account, but I never once had a problem using it, nor did Visa have a problem issuing it to me.
Wow, thh article is just so blatently wrong that I don't even know where to begin. On my mail servers, you _cannot_ login in with unencrypted authentication. You must use either SSL or Kerberos for authentication.
On December 19, 1998, the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President William J. Clinton, claiming the president had "willfully corrupted and manipulated the judicial process." The Senate trial began on January 14, 1999, and once again arguments focused on the definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors." Falling short of the necessary two-thirds vote on either article of impeachment (Article I, 55 to 45; Article II, 50 to 50), the Senate acquitted President Clinton on February 12, 1999.
The original poster claimed "Country level TLDs are enforced. They tend to be in the control of the likes of governments and universities, and you have to do things like supply the address of your company in the country in question in order to apply."
This is clearly not true for many country level TLDs. Look at The Wikipedia page oncountry code TLDs and notice how many of them are listed as "foreign registration permitted".
Some country code TLDs are picky. So are some 'generic' TLDs - gov, mil, coop, aero, museum. Others are not enforced strictly, if at all.
Think about it, both SciFi and Food channel were once part of the basic Direct TV satellite package years ago until the little phone cord attached to the back of every box tattled to the marketing guru's that they were getting lots of viewer time, so they got bumped up into premium packages.
As a user, I'd be glad to have reliable, free wireless service available. A country where the service was ubiquitous, much like the electrical system and water system, would be a dream (probably the network administrator's worst nightmare, though).
Neither electrical service nor the water system are free (nor are they really ubiquitious). Why would you expect wireless internet service to be so?
Income taxes are owed where the work is performed.
If I live in New Hampshire, and telecommute for a company based in Texas, who has an office in California which performs consulting work for a company in Hawaii, and I do the work on my laptop while on a plane flying from Florida to Iowa, where is the work performed? To whom would I owe income tax?
Carnegie Mellon's Computing Services has already removed all of their Sun machines from the public labs. There are still publicly accessible Solaris servers users can log into remotely via ssh, but those are going to be phased out as well in the very near future.
However, for certain servers, we're going to continue using Sun machines running Solaris. For our needs, Solaris on Sun hardware just works better than Linux servers. The number of Solaris servers has been going steadily down in favor of Linux machines over time, though.
Sort of what happened in Iran when Khomeini and his religious band of merry men took over the government. Don't worry, American friends, there are many people out there who can relate, and who you can stand beside to fight this scourge.
MythTV can't record the digital bitstream directly from the satellite. The best you can do is re-encode the S-Video output of a standalone DTV reciever, and even this assumes that you hack toghether some what to change the channel on the standalone reciever.
No thanks. Until a DTV tuner card is available (not likely, due to piracy concerns), I'm sticking with my TiVo.
Actually I'm disappointed, you win the contest and you don't even get to drink a coke? sheesh.
A few years back, the local Dr. Pepper bottler had a contest where you could randomly win a Dr. Pepper t-shirt if you bought a can of Dr. Pepper from a vending machine. Some random cans in machines were replaced with identical-sized cans that contained a t-shirt, and 50 cents (presumably so that you could buy a real can of Dr Pepper).
The part where they screwed up is that instead of including two quarters, they gave you a half dollar coin. The machines were unable to take a half dollar, so now you were left with a t-shirt and a 50-cent piece, and nothing to drink. Oops.
In my previous residence, I had DSL from PennTelecom with no voice service. In my current residence, I have a cable modem from Comcast, with no cable TV service.
It's quite possible to do both if you get lucky and have the right companies serving your area.
I don't think that hosting companies necessarily care about the IRC protocol itself, but more with the problems that come along with hosting a service known for attracting the worst kind of attention while sucking up tremendous amounts of bandwidth.
The technical requirements for running an Undernet.org server explain it pretty clearly. 5 Mbps of legit traffic, plus becoming a target for massive DDOS attacks? Why would a hosting company want that kind of service in their netblock?
Yea, sure, other IRC networks aren't nearly as high-profile, but this is the reputation that IRC has gotten, along with being a haven for copyright violation.
If you want to run an IRC server, then get your own dedicated net connection from a backbone provider and you can host whatever (legal) service you want.
Google, Inc. is a corporation which provides search services under the name "Google", just like General Motors Corporation is a corporation which sells trucks under the name "Chevrolet".
Google is a privately held company.
Google, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Notice that there's no "Inc." after Google's name.
Wrong.
Registrant:
Google Inc. (DOM-258879)
2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
Mountain View CA 94043
US
Domain Name: google.com
This means that "Google" has not been incorporated into a legal entity, and as such, the owner(s) could be liable for the actions of the company.
Google is incorporated, and therefore the owners do have the liability protection offered by incorporating.
This is a tradeoff: do you incorporate, and have a ton of silly shareholders dictating your course, or do you not, and leave yourself liable?
Incorporation has nothing to do with being publicly held or not. There are many incorporated entities which are privately held, many more than are publicly held.
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No luck necessary here. I have two cable cards (Comcast) in my TiVo Series3, and haven't had a single problem.
Yes. Me.
I installed a modchip in my XBox specifically so that I could run XBMC. I have used it precisely once to play an XBox game which I ripped from a game I purchased to see how it performed. Since then, I have used it exclusively to stream music to my stereo, as the UI is better than any of the other devices I had tried.
I only decided to hack my XBox after I realized I hadn't played games on it in several months. All of my gaming now is on my DS.
In the case of the shopping channels, most often you're not only not paying for them, the channel creator actually pays the cable company to carry the station. This is why the even the lowest tier offered by the cable company includes all of the shopping channels.
In addition, often times the content providers write into the cable companies contracts bundling requirements. For example, if a given tier includes ESPN, then it must also include ABC Family (not necessarily true for those exact two channels, but the idea is true). So in those cases, your cable company is contractually forbidden from selling you just one of the channels.
This comes up all of the time, and the situation hasn't changed.
What law makes using credit cards by kids illegal? I've had a credit card since I was 14, and used it regularly while I was a minor. Granted, this was a second card on my father's account, but I never once had a problem using it, nor did Visa have a problem issuing it to me.
Cyrus has a simple configuration option for this:Baffling.
Yes, he was.
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/commo
William Clinton
On December 19, 1998, the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President William J. Clinton, claiming the president had "willfully corrupted and manipulated the judicial process." The Senate trial began on January 14, 1999, and once again arguments focused on the definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors." Falling short of the necessary two-thirds vote on either article of impeachment (Article I, 55 to 45; Article II, 50 to 50), the Senate acquitted President Clinton on February 12, 1999.
The original poster claimed "Country level TLDs are enforced. They tend to be in the control of the likes of governments and universities, and you have to do things like supply the address of your company in the country in question in order to apply."
This is clearly not true for many country level TLDs. Look at The Wikipedia page oncountry code TLDs and notice how many of them are listed as "foreign registration permitted".
Some country code TLDs are picky. So are some 'generic' TLDs - gov, mil, coop, aero, museum. Others are not enforced strictly, if at all.
Indeed, country level TLDs are very strictly enforced. Espcially ones like Christmas Island and Tobago/
Oh, wait. Country TLD's are abused just like any other TLD.
Did you pay for the Programmer Service Tools software which you used to "hack" your phone? If not, you contradicted yourself.
Or does copyright not apply when it is inconvient?
Verizon does have exactly such things. They're called COWs (cell-on-wheels) and COLTs (cell-on-light-trucks).
After 9/11, Verizon rolled out COWs around ground zero to support cell use by rescue workers. For details, read http://files.ctia.org/pdf/CTIA_NRIC_0911.pdf
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Neither electrical service nor the water system are free (nor are they really ubiquitious). Why would you expect wireless internet service to be so?
If I live in New Hampshire, and telecommute for a company based in Texas, who has an office in California which performs consulting work for a company in Hawaii, and I do the work on my laptop while on a plane flying from Florida to Iowa, where is the work performed? To whom would I owe income tax?
Carnegie Mellon's Computing Services has already removed all of their Sun machines from the public labs. There are still publicly accessible Solaris servers users can log into remotely via ssh, but those are going to be phased out as well in the very near future.
However, for certain servers, we're going to continue using Sun machines running Solaris. For our needs, Solaris on Sun hardware just works better than Linux servers. The number of Solaris servers has been going steadily down in favor of Linux machines over time, though.
Sort of what happened in Iran when Khomeini and his religious band of merry men took over the government. Don't worry, American friends, there are many people out there who can relate, and who you can stand beside to fight this scourge.
They might look like Arabs though
Most Iranians aren't Arabs. They're Persian.
Windows Remote Desktop Client
OSX VNC
SSH client built in.
NFS, SMB (Windows filesharing), AppleShare, and WebDAV file sharing clients built in.
up up down down left right left right b a select start first post?
You mean, something like the Powermate?
Bush has no power to extend the ban. Congress must approve it in order for him to sign it.
Interestingly, Kerry claims to want to extend it, but I can't find any evidence of him actually introducing a bill in the Senate to do so.
MythTV can't record the digital bitstream directly from the satellite. The best you can do is re-encode the S-Video output of a standalone DTV reciever, and even this assumes that you hack toghether some what to change the channel on the standalone reciever.
No thanks. Until a DTV tuner card is available (not likely, due to piracy concerns), I'm sticking with my TiVo.
A few years back, the local Dr. Pepper bottler had a contest where you could randomly win a Dr. Pepper t-shirt if you bought a can of Dr. Pepper from a vending machine. Some random cans in machines were replaced with identical-sized cans that contained a t-shirt, and 50 cents (presumably so that you could buy a real can of Dr Pepper).
The part where they screwed up is that instead of including two quarters, they gave you a half dollar coin. The machines were unable to take a half dollar, so now you were left with a t-shirt and a 50-cent piece, and nothing to drink. Oops.
In my previous residence, I had DSL from PennTelecom with no voice service. In my current residence, I have a cable modem from Comcast, with no cable TV service.
It's quite possible to do both if you get lucky and have the right companies serving your area.
I don't think that hosting companies necessarily care about the IRC protocol itself, but more with the problems that come along with hosting a service known for attracting the worst kind of attention while sucking up tremendous amounts of bandwidth.
The
technical requirements for running an Undernet.org server explain it pretty clearly. 5 Mbps of legit traffic, plus becoming a target for massive DDOS attacks? Why would a hosting company want that kind of service in their netblock?
Yea, sure, other IRC networks aren't nearly as high-profile, but this is the reputation that IRC has gotten, along with being a haven for copyright violation.
If you want to run an IRC server, then get your own dedicated net connection from a backbone provider and you can host whatever (legal) service you want.
Wrong.
Registrant:
Google Inc. (DOM-258879)
2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
Mountain View CA 94043
US
Domain Name: google.com
Google is incorporated, and therefore the owners do have the liability protection offered by incorporating.
Incorporation has nothing to do with being publicly held or not. There are many incorporated entities which are privately held, many more than are publicly held.