Region coding is also like mobile-phone locking - its an unfair business practice and theres not a (clean) judge in the world who couldnt say that by-passing region coding was totally the consumers right.
Never mind about that, what about this!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/35 65616.st m
The Olympics have officially sold out (probably years ago but hey) you are not allowed into watch any of the games if you are wearing clothing thats clearly showing logos of a non-sponsering company. All non-sponsership adverts were pulled from bill-boards for miles around the grounds and you arnt allowed to eat anything other than mcdonalds or drink any water (consider the heat) thats not official Olympic water (read overpriced water).
Couldnt care less about the Olympics its nothing more than an advertising platform or a test-ground for new drugs. But damn its making someone a shit load of cash and i wanna be that someone..
Hardly a novel use for the web! Bob-needs-an-X.com is soooo 2002! People have done this to death its just not interesting anymore! this year its all about not having a website, like checkout my lack of a website "oh you are soooo individual!".
China should take the stick in its own hands - let the manufacturers skip paying the DVD licensing, skip or the region coding bullshit and make players that dont 'officially' play DVDs. And of course not playing DVDs means they dont answer to stupid DRM that tells you what you can play where - sell them to the world, we'll lap them up! either that or just create a better format (not hard).
wiretapping at the end of the day isnt really an issue online, its so easy to encrypt and its just going to get easier as more and more programs build functionality in for the average user. Although there is the problem of tracing, you cant exactly hide where your packets are going (unless you used an elaborate distributed system of people taking your packets and secretly passing them on while generating random traffic to other places) and you could also have a man-in-the-middle attack if you have no other communications channel to send keys. The point is, if everyone enctrypts, key-word flagging will be out and wiretapping will only be used in cases where its absolutely needed because only those cases will have the resources to spend time cracking encryption or tracing things or waiting for a new key to be given. Still it doesnt mean it should be a green light for tapping, but it already is, the patriot act sorted that out years ago.
I just remembered Atomic Train!: The breaks on a train fail and tragedy approaches Denver (several hours away) this gives our NTSB hero time to say "kids, ive got to go save a train" jump in a chopper and attempt to stop it. abviously killing the power, removing fuel, uncouppling the front or jamming a spanner in the works just aint gonna stop this thing. so they try dumping a load of sand on the track afew miles ahead (and mr hero gets his chopper nicely landed on the tracks ready for a close call moment for no reason). then suddenly we learn the truth!!! someone decided to ship an old russian nuke going to be decomissioned or something (cant remember, dont care, whatever) and as we all know nukes dont get set off just by being dropped or smashed in a train, but this is a.. you know.. russian nuke.. the rest is history, culminating in a a poor (stock footage?) nuke going off and everyone going boo-hoo.
Theres definately a difference between a film thats so bad its good and one thats so bad its not even good for being so bad its just bad (ie it wraps around again bad -> good -> rock-bottom) but could it then wrap around a second or third time from that? we need some sort of theory of film revolution - i.e absolute badness or infinate revolution? could someone even make a film so bad that it goes from rock-bottom back to good? is that within the limits of film physics? personally i think there could be a rock-bottom and that any wrap around from that is purely on a quantum level.
Note how many are made very recently vs the top box-office returns of the same time scale.. ie the trend is films are getting worse, but making more money.
i thought spiderman 2 sucked allot (now im gonna get it) allot of pointless depressing character insight that really made you want to scream at the screen "for fucks sake, you could have made that pizza delivery on time if you had become spiderman quicker and not screwed around with that mop!" and "oh for crying out loud, tell her!" in the end, not only does he tell her (i thought that was the whole problem anyway?) but he somehow chose to both save lives and be with her?!?! so basically you have a premise, and instead of finding a solution you just say, oh ok, fuck it, lets just do that anyway im sure it will be ok. Then theres that octo-guy. "yes you see the arms are prevented from taking over by *this* *little* *chip* here on the back of my neck, yes just *here*, lets just *hope* nothing happens to that!!" but he just goes ahead and runs his experiment in the middle of the city anyway (because you just cant get the labour outside new york). Actually i missed the first film so i cant really comment on all of it and not _everything_ sucked, i liked the train sequence where even though he was a tough superhero there were still things that even he found hard.. all the other bits just served to make you really irritated because they wernt really problems.
Thats very true, and i would even go as far as to say im sure you could bring a computer to afghanistan if you really wanted to (and were in such a position of power). But the pieces still dont fit: good organisation and archiving but no security or contingency for capture? its said that bin-laden throws away phones regularly to prevent any kind of tracing which is a sign that above all else he atleast seems to have a sense of security (which is honestly more than i can say for some government organisations). so for this to happen it just seems abit.. too good.
I think im going to pass out because the stench of bull shit has just reached epic proportions. The question is, where did it start? did al-qaeda write it as a plant or did the cullison write it because he was bored on the plane home? or did someone think, "hmm how can i sell all these old PCs, i know, ill stick some crap on them and say they were al-qaedas!" the only other explanation is that its true and al-qaeda suffer just as much from IBM death stars (didn't know the 40GB model was around in '98 but hey) and random windows corruption as much as you or me! And also they have a james bond-esque style of keeping all their secrets ready for discovery.
Nice to know terrorism is really being taken care of seriously, so between this, voting and letting anything onto a plane that the tabaco companies deem ok, what else isnt working? the next terrorism incident will strike terror into everyone not because of fire and death but because they will suddenly realise their worst fear - that the people incharge are all idiots!
Thats very true, once you've 0wned a PC you have to look out for it and make sure no-one else tries to 0wn it. That means fire-walling if possible or daily virus checks and remote patching to ensure you remain the 0wner. Of course its still cheap to PURCHASE - i think some russian sites offer a block of zombies for resonable price but you still have to look after them. I agree its not as simple as learning how to use a web browser but with all the scripts around its not as hard as it used to be!
Not only that but you pay for some tv anyway - cable, satellite etc and you still get adverts! you pay just as much if not more money, for adverts!??!?! its fucking insane. Anyway, you dont need anything else, i get all my fix of southpark, simpsons, and any other american show that gets shown a series behind here online and if they dont like it they can damn well sell us the rights for the current season! Also the BBC has amazing training! ok so forcing you to pay the license is abit sucky, but fuck it, its a one-off tradition thats been going for decades.
Have they actually ever got the thing off the ground? I mean surely you test these things before you go off to the competition infront of 1000's of people? or did they just finish it and think ah, dang, we really should just stick a tarp over it and leave it until the big day, no use just having a quick go now.. maybe with a video camera. Actually knowing most engineering projects im guessing they just finished building the thing in the morning!
if you liked essen mein sheizer, you'll love this: audrey: "fuck me hard. fuck me harder! i cant even feel it you little prick! ok! ive had enough! get down on your knees, and lick my cunt until you pass out or i'll break your neck!"
AT&T would like to thank slashdot for load testing their new TTS system. Which i must say held out pretty well during its 15 minute bombardment of "fuck me hard" (audrey) "last time on star trek voyager" (claire) and "essen mein sheizer. oh yah. dass ist gut!" (both of the germans). And thus, we learn the reason why we dont use online replacements for desktop apps: we all have our own computing power, a website cant handle all of us.
Ah that argument might make sense in a sane place were people can grasp basic engineering concepts like "square peg, square hole" but will it hold up in a court of law? - heres how it might go (and this would be for a good out-come) "I present to the court Forgents tax records for the year 2002. As you can see from the accounts record, Forgent did not declare this patent as a code 4C taxable item in form 34A, as per federal tax law paragraph 3 of section 14D! I think its obvious to the court that under said law this patent would be subject to the state code 434, part C and thus they cannot use this patent for commercial purpose."
Obviously lighters and matches are allowed in though. Kinda ironic really - the statue of Liberty but im guessing the lockers arnt mandatory? i.e you can just leave your dangerous objects in your car and not get a locker? Also can they use security cameras to automatically store your picture with your fingerprint file? do they? is there any thing illegal about that? and one more thing, do all these different finger print scanners produce compatable finger-print data? can it be converted? Do they have a legal obligation to keep it private and secure or give you access to your fingerprint scan data (i know in the UK it would fall under the same thing as any other database or CCTV tape: you have a legal right to see your own data and they must keep it secure from anyone else and tell you what they intend to do with it).
Its the first idea that would pop into most peoples heads if they were thinking of a way to compress data and im sure its been thought of long before computing, infact any of these concepts - Huffman, Hamming, DCT, RLE, have. I think current patent law works on the basis that anything is patentable until its challenged in court, then its only patentable if your lawyer is good enough to find an obscure law to cover it or if they can pursuade the jury that the technology is so complex and un-obvious that they must have spend years developing it.
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Ahhh, im starting to see the light now. So the absolute only point to all sports is for advertisers to make money out of people that are sucked in?
Hmmmm... evil thoughts.. i wonder if the same could work for online games? Gandalf, do you wish to buy a +10 coke? i mean cloak...
Region coding is also like mobile-phone locking - its an unfair business practice and theres not a (clean) judge in the world who couldnt say that by-passing region coding was totally the consumers right.
Never mind about that, what about this!!5 65616.st m
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3
The Olympics have officially sold out (probably years ago but hey) you are not allowed into watch any of the games if you are wearing clothing thats clearly showing logos of a non-sponsering company. All non-sponsership adverts were pulled from bill-boards for miles around the grounds and you arnt allowed to eat anything other than mcdonalds or drink any water (consider the heat) thats not official Olympic water (read overpriced water).
Couldnt care less about the Olympics its nothing more than an advertising platform or a test-ground for new drugs. But damn its making someone a shit load of cash and i wanna be that someone..
Hardly a novel use for the web! Bob-needs-an-X.com is soooo 2002! People have done this to death its just not interesting anymore! this year its all about not having a website, like checkout my lack of a website "oh you are soooo individual!".
China should take the stick in its own hands - let the manufacturers skip paying the DVD licensing, skip or the region coding bullshit and make players that dont 'officially' play DVDs. And of course not playing DVDs means they dont answer to stupid DRM that tells you what you can play where - sell them to the world, we'll lap them up! either that or just create a better format (not hard).
wiretapping at the end of the day isnt really an issue online, its so easy to encrypt and its just going to get easier as more and more programs build functionality in for the average user. Although there is the problem of tracing, you cant exactly hide where your packets are going (unless you used an elaborate distributed system of people taking your packets and secretly passing them on while generating random traffic to other places) and you could also have a man-in-the-middle attack if you have no other communications channel to send keys. The point is, if everyone enctrypts, key-word flagging will be out and wiretapping will only be used in cases where its absolutely needed because only those cases will have the resources to spend time cracking encryption or tracing things or waiting for a new key to be given. Still it doesnt mean it should be a green light for tapping, but it already is, the patriot act sorted that out years ago.
I just remembered Atomic Train!: The breaks on a train fail and tragedy approaches Denver (several hours away) this gives our NTSB hero time to say "kids, ive got to go save a train" jump in a chopper and attempt to stop it. abviously killing the power, removing fuel, uncouppling the front or jamming a spanner in the works just aint gonna stop this thing. so they try dumping a load of sand on the track afew miles ahead (and mr hero gets his chopper nicely landed on the tracks ready for a close call moment for no reason). then suddenly we learn the truth!!! someone decided to ship an old russian nuke going to be decomissioned or something (cant remember, dont care, whatever) and as we all know nukes dont get set off just by being dropped or smashed in a train, but this is a.. you know.. russian nuke.. the rest is history, culminating in a a poor (stock footage?) nuke going off and everyone going boo-hoo.
Theres definately a difference between a film thats so bad its good and one thats so bad its not even good for being so bad its just bad (ie it wraps around again bad -> good -> rock-bottom) but could it then wrap around a second or third time from that? we need some sort of theory of film revolution - i.e absolute badness or infinate revolution? could someone even make a film so bad that it goes from rock-bottom back to good? is that within the limits of film physics? personally i think there could be a rock-bottom and that any wrap around from that is purely on a quantum level.
Note how many are made very recently vs the top box-office returns of the same time scale.. ie the trend is films are getting worse, but making more money.
i thought spiderman 2 sucked allot (now im gonna get it) allot of pointless depressing character insight that really made you want to scream at the screen "for fucks sake, you could have made that pizza delivery on time if you had become spiderman quicker and not screwed around with that mop!" and "oh for crying out loud, tell her!" in the end, not only does he tell her (i thought that was the whole problem anyway?) but he somehow chose to both save lives and be with her?!?! so basically you have a premise, and instead of finding a solution you just say, oh ok, fuck it, lets just do that anyway im sure it will be ok. Then theres that octo-guy. "yes you see the arms are prevented from taking over by *this* *little* *chip* here on the back of my neck, yes just *here*, lets just *hope* nothing happens to that!!" but he just goes ahead and runs his experiment in the middle of the city anyway (because you just cant get the labour outside new york). Actually i missed the first film so i cant really comment on all of it and not _everything_ sucked, i liked the train sequence where even though he was a tough superhero there were still things that even he found hard.. all the other bits just served to make you really irritated because they wernt really problems.
Thats very true, and i would even go as far as to say im sure you could bring a computer to afghanistan if you really wanted to (and were in such a position of power). But the pieces still dont fit: good organisation and archiving but no security or contingency for capture? its said that bin-laden throws away phones regularly to prevent any kind of tracing which is a sign that above all else he atleast seems to have a sense of security (which is honestly more than i can say for some government organisations). so for this to happen it just seems abit.. too good.
I think im going to pass out because the stench of bull shit has just reached epic proportions. The question is, where did it start? did al-qaeda write it as a plant or did the cullison write it because he was bored on the plane home? or did someone think, "hmm how can i sell all these old PCs, i know, ill stick some crap on them and say they were al-qaedas!" the only other explanation is that its true and al-qaeda suffer just as much from IBM death stars (didn't know the 40GB model was around in '98 but hey) and random windows corruption as much as you or me! And also they have a james bond-esque style of keeping all their secrets ready for discovery.
Nice to know terrorism is really being taken care of seriously, so between this, voting and letting anything onto a plane that the tabaco companies deem ok, what else isnt working? the next terrorism incident will strike terror into everyone not because of fire and death but because they will suddenly realise their worst fear - that the people incharge are all idiots!
If thats their business plan should i give them my re-write?
ahahahaahahahahahha OH hahaahahhhahaaaha please!! ahahahaha i cant hahaha air hahahahahahahahah need air! ahhahaha ROFL ROFL ROFL hahahahahahahahahahahahhaa.
Thats very true, once you've 0wned a PC you have to look out for it and make sure no-one else tries to 0wn it. That means fire-walling if possible or daily virus checks and remote patching to ensure you remain the 0wner. Of course its still cheap to PURCHASE - i think some russian sites offer a block of zombies for resonable price but you still have to look after them. I agree its not as simple as learning how to use a web browser but with all the scripts around its not as hard as it used to be!
I was talking about hands-on training in TV, radio and film.
Not only that but you pay for some tv anyway - cable, satellite etc and you still get adverts! you pay just as much if not more money, for adverts!??!?! its fucking insane. Anyway, you dont need anything else, i get all my fix of southpark, simpsons, and any other american show that gets shown a series behind here online and if they dont like it they can damn well sell us the rights for the current season! Also the BBC has amazing training! ok so forcing you to pay the license is abit sucky, but fuck it, its a one-off tradition thats been going for decades.
Have they actually ever got the thing off the ground? I mean surely you test these things before you go off to the competition infront of 1000's of people? or did they just finish it and think ah, dang, we really should just stick a tarp over it and leave it until the big day, no use just having a quick go now.. maybe with a video camera. Actually knowing most engineering projects im guessing they just finished building the thing in the morning!
I don't know whats more funny - the first post or the reply! ROFL
im too scared to ask why it almost made you need to buy a new keyboard..
if you liked essen mein sheizer, you'll love this: audrey: "fuck me hard. fuck me harder! i cant even feel it you little prick! ok! ive had enough! get down on your knees, and lick my cunt until you pass out or i'll break your neck!"
AT&T would like to thank slashdot for load testing their new TTS system. Which i must say held out pretty well during its 15 minute bombardment of "fuck me hard" (audrey) "last time on star trek voyager" (claire) and "essen mein sheizer. oh yah. dass ist gut!" (both of the germans). And thus, we learn the reason why we dont use online replacements for desktop apps: we all have our own computing power, a website cant handle all of us.
Ah that argument might make sense in a sane place were people can grasp basic engineering concepts like "square peg, square hole" but will it hold up in a court of law? - heres how it might go (and this would be for a good out-come) "I present to the court Forgents tax records for the year 2002. As you can see from the accounts record, Forgent did not declare this patent as a code 4C taxable item in form 34A, as per federal tax law paragraph 3 of section 14D! I think its obvious to the court that under said law this patent would be subject to the state code 434, part C and thus they cannot use this patent for commercial purpose."
Obviously lighters and matches are allowed in though. Kinda ironic really - the statue of Liberty but im guessing the lockers arnt mandatory? i.e you can just leave your dangerous objects in your car and not get a locker? Also can they use security cameras to automatically store your picture with your fingerprint file? do they? is there any thing illegal about that? and one more thing, do all these different finger print scanners produce compatable finger-print data? can it be converted? Do they have a legal obligation to keep it private and secure or give you access to your fingerprint scan data (i know in the UK it would fall under the same thing as any other database or CCTV tape: you have a legal right to see your own data and they must keep it secure from anyone else and tell you what they intend to do with it).
Its the first idea that would pop into most peoples heads if they were thinking of a way to compress data and im sure its been thought of long before computing, infact any of these concepts - Huffman, Hamming, DCT, RLE, have. I think current patent law works on the basis that anything is patentable until its challenged in court, then its only patentable if your lawyer is good enough to find an obscure law to cover it or if they can pursuade the jury that the technology is so complex and un-obvious that they must have spend years developing it.