>>Don't get me wrong here, I'm by no means "Pro- >>RIAA", but if you just spent $30,000 on a new >>vehicle, there's no way that you would >>honestly let someone else "make a copy" of it >>for themselves.
I'd let my girlfriend, best friend, my parents, her parents and my supervisor at work. Don't speak for other people good sir.
Do these people who are being identified know who they are? Does anyone know if Verizon contacted them and made them aware? If so, would Verizon liable if they packed up, deleted all the potentially infringing files and left the country?
>> Suffice to say, I'll pay attention, but it'll >>be hard to impress me.
Well they do seem kinda serious about it, buying PressPlay and all as well. As for the impression factor, I'm just figuring if we're nice now we can be more mean to them later:)
I'm in Toronto and this is already in use at several Gas station chains, most notably Esso.
While the speed pass works in the same way of not requiring direct contact, instead of billing you directly you provide them a credit card number to bill to, but the technology in this case is the same and not incredibly amazing.
Business alarm systems have used proximity badges for years now!
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>> If we accidentally bomb a wedding or two
US Gov't: Our intelligence lead us to believe that Saddam Hussein was inside both of the weddings at the same time, we're sorry, our bad.
>>but the RIAA is making a big mistake if they
>>think they can legislate out of existence
>>economic law.
Why would the RIAA bother making a logical argument/business plan when they can just use the legal system, not that I've ever seen that happen before!
>>Don't get me wrong here, I'm by no means "Pro-
>>RIAA", but if you just spent $30,000 on a new
>>vehicle, there's no way that you would
>>honestly let someone else "make a copy" of it
>>for themselves.
I'd let my girlfriend, best friend, my parents, her parents and my supervisor at work. Don't speak for other people good sir.
>>just label them a 'spammer'
... I don't want to 'talk about us'
I have an ex-girlfriend I'd like charged for 'spamming' me
oh no not santa's balls!
... you can hire me to come to your house and hold a 9volt battery to your opponents tongue, win or lose.
but what about a beowulf clus..... n/m
a) a way to communicate if people are not close, perhaps a local message board or irc chatroom where people can decide what games to play
b) the air freshener guy wasn't kidding.....
I hope he reads this, finally got what he deserved. :)
>> gc@a20p gc $ rm gollum_mtvawards_Bband.mov
Well thats the problem right there, you're watching it on an IBM computer!
Didn't Dr. Dre recently lose a suit for sampling someone elses song?
But McDonalds won and the fatties got nothing... except maybe a big mac combo after the trial.
Do these people who are being identified know who they are? Does anyone know if Verizon contacted them and made them aware? If so, would Verizon liable if they packed up, deleted all the potentially infringing files and left the country?
Well I'm thinking long term, but what if instead of error checking now like in TCP, there was some hardware processing of checksums....
Not quite a janitor...
:)
There is no doubt IBM creates new technology... but in IBM PCD, I stand by the statement I made which you should be able to verify with your wife.
BTW Is she hot?
>> IBM designes and makes computers
I worked for IBM... I'm not sure if that statement is entirely accurate.
Wouldn't you like to be the person who says to the 'man':
Remember when you shutdown our project that was intended for legal use but potentially had illegal uses?....
>> Suffice to say, I'll pay attention, but it'll
:)
>>be hard to impress me.
Well they do seem kinda serious about it, buying PressPlay and all as well. As for the impression factor, I'm just figuring if we're nice now we can be more mean to them later
I guess it we fail to go through the product activation within 30 days we stop getting mail service :(
>> the legal version of Napster...forgotten
Lets see what Roxio does with it before we start trashing it....
>> Just wait a few years, if this catches on,
>>and more developers attempt this style of
>>gaming.
My breathe could kill the evil gingivitis early in the morning, is it the flow of air itself or is morning breath like a superweapon?
I'm in Toronto and this is already in use at several Gas station chains, most notably Esso.
While the speed pass works in the same way of not requiring direct contact, instead of billing you directly you provide them a credit card number to bill to, but the technology in this case is the same and not incredibly amazing.
Business alarm systems have used proximity badges for years now!
>> Aww! How do we expect to get an "early release" of Doom 4 now?
:)
Click here.
or disgruntled employee.
could you put the porn up on BitTorrent please? I've been trying to download porn and every time I wind up with a dvd-rip of Matrix Reloaded :(