You have to be kidding. These last few "evil" alternative universe episodes have been almost unbearable for me to watch because of the bad "I-have-an-angry-villain-voice" acting.
Well, I have no problem admitting that I "illegally" downloaded MacOSX 10.3 from eDonkey a long time ago, and 10.4 Tiger from Piratebay's torrent a few days ago; I only run it (slowly) inside of PearPC (on linux) to test website compatibility with MacIE and Safari (so I'm (arguably) doing everybody a favor).
SoSueMe.
Even though Mac hardware provides you much less bang for the buck than the PC, I've been very impressed with what I've seen of OSX and am seriously tempted to buy an overpriced iBook/PowerBook to get the realdeal.
Here's the clearest line. If calling 911 makes sense (you can dial numbers as if it were a regular telephone), then calling 911 should work.
Or rather, if the comm device is PRIMARY and PUBLICLY accessible, then 911 should work. Teamspeak/Skype might be PUBLIC, but only SECONDARY to, say, the actual Vonage or POTS phone that anyone can use in an emergency.
So, either you tie a 911-required device to a physical location, or you require some last-known-GPS-location stuff.
Fastest Gaining Registrars: GoDaddy (+278,692 domains in the last 4 weeks), with eNom in a distant 2nd place (at +73,744/month)
Fastest Losing Registrars: Network Solutions (-14,382), followed closely by that other ripoff registrar, Register.com (-10,293)
Does anyone really think the "NetSol" brand counts for that much of premium? Register.com certainly never did, but they didn't count on the people they were marketing to getting a cluestick.
I expect my children not to use their internet privileges to look at pornography. I think most any parent would agree.
Only hypocritical parents who think of their children as little innocent angels who will somehow be corrupted, would agree. If your kid is "caught" actively (vs accidently) surfing porn sites, then TALK WITH HIM/HER to let 'em know it's perfectly natural to want to look at boobies, but that the younger they are the stupider they are and so they shouldn't consider doing any of it themselves until they're older.
Punishing them only forces them to learn how to go around your back and cover their tracks. And they will.
However, the more people who are trying to break into this market, the more it is going to split up collections of video. Because when you have competitors, the name of the game will soon be "exclusive content".
Right - just like iTunes. Apple makes it very convenient to legally access a modestly large archive of music, but if you want access to ENTIRE SUPERSET out there, then you've got to use the slightly-less-conveinent-P2P which doesn't have to bother pushing against the legal friction of securing rights.
Remember those commercials from the late 90s with the tagline of accessing information "Anything, anytime, anywhere"? That's not likely to ever be legal.
Uploading and searching for short video clips certainly qualifies as fair use[1], but for most of the other video that people are searching for, I don't see how a "legitimate" company like Google can get away with indexing it when many others have been shutdown for doing the same thing. Sites like LokiTorrent (dead), ShareReactor (dead), ShareConnector (dead), and even Napster (dead), simply made it easy to search pointers to data, but they were forced offline anyway.
Google would have a hell of time being a copyright cop; better to leave this function to the constantly shifting "grey" p2p world.
[1] unless the recent idea of a "permission culture" has overtaken your worldview.
And if this crowd happens to be gawking at yet another "image" of The Virgin Mary on some highway underpass, or Billy Bob's stained bedsheets, then take the square root of that number.
This is an area of policy where lawmakers really need to tear everything down, and go back to what the Constitution said about Copyright, and what the Founding Fathers intended.
Gah! Crazy talk! Change is bad. Change is scary. Stop rocking the boat. 14 years isn't enough time to promote my bank account and useful vacations!
Otherwise, the Free Market will make us it's bitch
Which "Free Market"? The multi-national corporate version? or the real thing? Oh, you mean both.:)
I can't abide the idea of artificial scarcity of "virtual property", which is one reason why I sort of liked the way Second Life did things. Anybody could create objects and then choose to release it for free under a GPL or BSD-like license (can't remember which), or force people to pay for a closed-source intance of the object.
More games should emuluate this philosophy. The new world will be the virtual world, and we don't need to take scarcity with us just because our minds evolved in evironments of scarcity and haven't adapted yet.
Indeed. And every couple weeks I spend the 60 seconds or so that it takes to submit all 50 of my new invites to the gmail spooler. Seems like a lot of Chinese are grabbing my invites. Guess that makes sense.
If you didn't link to some crappy-christian-merchandise.com site, your post might have been funny. Thing is, I bet you're being half-serious in the whack belief that blocking access to "sinful" porn pays blessed dividends. But do correct me if I read you wrong, Thumper.
What constitutes "balance" varies depending on the culture, individual, and the point in time. There's nothing inherently better about being outside eating granola bars and singing kumbaiya VS spending the same time interactively computing... unless you ask an aging luddite hippie like Cliff Stoll.
It's just greedy human nature. Machiavelli put it best 500 years ago:
"Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new."
I've had that quote up on my wall for a number of years, since it helps to remind me how consistantly people -- and especially the cashcow status quo -- resist any disruptive change that shifts net benefit/power to a greater number of people.
Because Consumer Reports tested it, twice, and it was determined that Sharper Image was selling an overmarketed, overpriced piece of shit. The people who have bought one of these ripoffs haven't tried the better solutions, but like to defend their bad purchase anyway.
No, I mean two. The penalty for not paying quarterly estimated taxes is tiny enough that it's worth avoiding three paperwork headaches.
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I'd much rather they withhold too much and I just get a refund in the spring so I don't have to worry about it.
Frankly, that's a retarded attitude, but a lot of lazy people share it. To have your employer automatically subtract (sorry, "withhold") taxes just so you can feel like you're winning the lottery when you get your "refund" is... retarded. Not only do you lose out on the interest, but the government has you by the balls because you don't even really feel the pain of PAYING taxes.
Since I'm self-employed, nobody withholds from me, so I get to feel it when I write my two checks to Fed and State treasuries.
By the way, Tax Freedom Day for 2005 falls on April 17th, so you're still working to payoff taxes until then... but at least you won't feel it.:)
We have a foolproof plan to put the internet genie back in the bottle. "Trusted Computing" DRM and the "Secure Internet" are double-plus good; only thieves, spammers, cyber-terrorists and pedophiles disagree.
Sincerely,
Minions of the New World Order
Dept. of "Intellectual Property Ownership Society" Propaganda
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You have to be kidding. These last few "evil" alternative universe episodes have been almost unbearable for me to watch because of the bad "I-have-an-angry-villain-voice" acting.
That nebulous polling 'technology' that almost nobody outside of the 'blogosphere' cares much about...
SoSueMe.
Even though Mac hardware provides you much less bang for the buck than the PC, I've been very impressed with what I've seen of OSX and am seriously tempted to buy an overpriced iBook/PowerBook to get the realdeal.
Or rather, if the comm device is PRIMARY and PUBLICLY accessible, then 911 should work. Teamspeak/Skype might be PUBLIC, but only SECONDARY to, say, the actual Vonage or POTS phone that anyone can use in an emergency.
So, either you tie a 911-required device to a physical location, or you require some last-known-GPS-location stuff.
No, I got Cable, but I hear ADSL r0x0rs too.
Only hypocritical parents who think of their children as little innocent angels who will somehow be corrupted, would agree. If your kid is "caught" actively (vs accidently) surfing porn sites, then TALK WITH HIM/HER to let 'em know it's perfectly natural to want to look at boobies, but that the younger they are the stupider they are and so they shouldn't consider doing any of it themselves until they're older.
Punishing them only forces them to learn how to go around your back and cover their tracks. And they will.
...just one calorie, not evil enough.
Right - just like iTunes. Apple makes it very convenient to legally access a modestly large archive of music, but if you want access to ENTIRE SUPERSET out there, then you've got to use the slightly-less-conveinent-P2P which doesn't have to bother pushing against the legal friction of securing rights.
Remember those commercials from the late 90s with the tagline of accessing information "Anything, anytime, anywhere"? That's not likely to ever be legal.
According to OurMedia's FAQ they don't support BitTorrent (yet).
Google would have a hell of time being a copyright cop; better to leave this function to the constantly shifting "grey" p2p world.
[1] unless the recent idea of a "permission culture" has overtaken your worldview.
And if this crowd happens to be gawking at yet another "image" of The Virgin Mary on some highway underpass, or Billy Bob's stained bedsheets, then take the square root of that number.
Gah! Crazy talk! Change is bad. Change is scary. Stop rocking the boat. 14 years isn't enough time to promote my bank account and useful vacations!
Otherwise, the Free Market will make us it's bitch
Which "Free Market"? The multi-national corporate version? or the real thing? Oh, you mean both. :)
More games should emuluate this philosophy. The new world will be the virtual world, and we don't need to take scarcity with us just because our minds evolved in evironments of scarcity and haven't adapted yet.
Indeed. And every couple weeks I spend the 60 seconds or so that it takes to submit all 50 of my new invites to the gmail spooler. Seems like a lot of Chinese are grabbing my invites. Guess that makes sense.
If you didn't link to some crappy-christian-merchandise.com site, your post might have been funny. Thing is, I bet you're being half-serious in the whack belief that blocking access to "sinful" porn pays blessed dividends. But do correct me if I read you wrong, Thumper.
What constitutes "balance" varies depending on the culture, individual, and the point in time. There's nothing inherently better about being outside eating granola bars and singing kumbaiya VS spending the same time interactively computing... unless you ask an aging luddite hippie like Cliff Stoll.
Because Consumer Reports tested it, twice, and it was determined that Sharper Image was selling an overmarketed, overpriced piece of shit. The people who have bought one of these ripoffs haven't tried the better solutions, but like to defend their bad purchase anyway.
After a global disaster, I'd much rather have a big supply of tasty, freeze-dried food with a shelf-life of 30 years . Canned food - even SPAM - doesn't last more than a couple. :-)
So what's the problem? I did that just the other day; after dd'ing I used 'parted' to resize the single ntfs partition to fil bigger new drive.
No, I mean two. The penalty for not paying quarterly estimated taxes is tiny enough that it's worth avoiding three paperwork headaches.
Frankly, that's a retarded attitude, but a lot of lazy people share it. To have your employer automatically subtract (sorry, "withhold") taxes just so you can feel like you're winning the lottery when you get your "refund" is... retarded. Not only do you lose out on the interest, but the government has you by the balls because you don't even really feel the pain of PAYING taxes.
Since I'm self-employed, nobody withholds from me, so I get to feel it when I write my two checks to Fed and State treasuries.
By the way, Tax Freedom Day for 2005 falls on April 17th, so you're still working to payoff taxes until then... but at least you won't feel it. :)
Dear Weasel,
We have a foolproof plan to put the internet genie back in the bottle. "Trusted Computing" DRM and the "Secure Internet" are double-plus good; only thieves, spammers, cyber-terrorists and pedophiles disagree.
Sincerely,
Minions of the New World Order
Dept. of "Intellectual Property Ownership Society" Propaganda