Nuclear detonations create telltale signatures on seismometers, which makes it pretty much impossible to perform nuclear tests without being noticed by the international community. The article even admits this:
Others remain deeply sceptical that the tests took place at all. Most troubling is the lack of any seismic vibrations to support the radioisotope data, according to Ola Dahlman, a retired geophysicist who spent years working with the test-ban group's detection network. The Korean peninsula is wired to spot the tiniest shake from a nuclear explosion, Dahlman says. "It should have been able to see something."
But in this case, is it not the original buyer who is responsible, not redigi? After all, they are the one that sold their right to a recording and held on to a copy. So they should be taken to task, not the company. By following this standard of proof, all used music stores will be forced out of business. For that matter, used book stores will be too -- how can they prove the original owner didn't photocopy or scan the book before selling it?
It's pretty solidly in the vein of scifi stories looking at the potential of a new or upcoming technology, like all those stories written in the 50's about computers and robots. The point isn't that nobody in the fictional universe had ever thought of the idea before, it was to explore a possibility that the *reader* would not have thought of or ben aware of. The idea of self-replicating creation machines is pretty revolutionary, and even now as they're becoming more and more available, it's an idea that the majority of people will not have thought/heard of. Not to mention the social commentary...
No, the MPAA should sue their arses. Obviously, if they have the power to psychically see things outside of normal line of sight, they must, logically, be watching movies they haven't paid for, and thus causing millions of dollars of sales losses. While they're at it, they should have any domain names associated with the group confiscated, for promoting their illegal and immoral methods of pirate viewing.
Interestingly, all his projects seem to have disappeared from the web. Redphone is nowhere to be found on the android market, and Whispercore has a little note on his website saying, "temporarily unavailable."
I will never understand why companies like this feel the need to reinvent the wheel instead of using established, open tech (like any of the millions of VNC variants). Not only do you spend a whole bunch of extra time building it, you make it less compatible with existing platforms!
Android is anything but a small startup, and that's why Microsoft is going after it. It scares the crap out of them that there is an open source OS that is actually holding a significant part of the end-user market (I've been an exclusive Linux user for more than a decade, but it'd be silly to argue it is a major force in the user space). Of course they will do anything in their power to destroy it, their business model depends on it. If ever Ubuntu (for example) became a big player in the desktop space, you better believe they'd be on Canonical like white on rice.
Jailbreaking is not a thing on the Touchpad (or other WebOS devices). WebOS was meant to be hackable, and all you need to do is enable developer mode by typing in a certain (very widely published) string in the main search box to unhide the dev mode toggle application.
If only all mobile device manufacturers were that willing to let users control their own gadgets...
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Wow, the speed at which those images loaded brought me right back to 1998...
Ahh, but I'm a step ahead: I *already* filed a patent on patent term extension as a business model. ;)
Somebody ought to file a patent on copyright extension as a business model...
Seriously. And just install ghostery to avoid the tracking cookies. Or use a separate browser for company mandated social networking.
Wrapping up loose ends at the end of a series? I thought that fad was euthenized by Lost.
So this means they'll be able to charge less for service, right?
So how much of that $1 million in salaries was spent repairing the security holes, which they should have done anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w&ob=av3e (evil grin)
But in this case, is it not the original buyer who is responsible, not redigi? After all, they are the one that sold their right to a recording and held on to a copy. So they should be taken to task, not the company. By following this standard of proof, all used music stores will be forced out of business. For that matter, used book stores will be too -- how can they prove the original owner didn't photocopy or scan the book before selling it?
The real problem is that trying to work around such artificial restrictions is even considered cheating...
It's pretty solidly in the vein of scifi stories looking at the potential of a new or upcoming technology, like all those stories written in the 50's about computers and robots. The point isn't that nobody in the fictional universe had ever thought of the idea before, it was to explore a possibility that the *reader* would not have thought of or ben aware of. The idea of self-replicating creation machines is pretty revolutionary, and even now as they're becoming more and more available, it's an idea that the majority of people will not have thought/heard of. Not to mention the social commentary...
No, the MPAA should sue their arses. Obviously, if they have the power to psychically see things outside of normal line of sight, they must, logically, be watching movies they haven't paid for, and thus causing millions of dollars of sales losses. While they're at it, they should have any domain names associated with the group confiscated, for promoting their illegal and immoral methods of pirate viewing.
Generally, the "Obligatory XKCD" meme requires that the XKCD in question have some relation to the subject at hand....
Reading the headline, I was quite sad, but the summary makes me excited for what he's going to come out with! Rock on Miyamoto!
Sometimes snopes disappoints me... http://www.snopes.com/critters/farce/cowtao.asp I apologise to all who, like me, had their high hopes that this story could be true, broken.
I wish I had mod points to give you for that....
Interestingly, all his projects seem to have disappeared from the web. Redphone is nowhere to be found on the android market, and Whispercore has a little note on his website saying, "temporarily unavailable."
"the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable..."
Oh, I thought you were saying Netflix was sponsoring SOPA.
Do you have a reference for that?
I will never understand why companies like this feel the need to reinvent the wheel instead of using established, open tech (like any of the millions of VNC variants). Not only do you spend a whole bunch of extra time building it, you make it less compatible with existing platforms!
Care to post info on how you uninstalled it?
Android is anything but a small startup, and that's why Microsoft is going after it. It scares the crap out of them that there is an open source OS that is actually holding a significant part of the end-user market (I've been an exclusive Linux user for more than a decade, but it'd be silly to argue it is a major force in the user space). Of course they will do anything in their power to destroy it, their business model depends on it. If ever Ubuntu (for example) became a big player in the desktop space, you better believe they'd be on Canonical like white on rice.
Jailbreaking is not a thing on the Touchpad (or other WebOS devices). WebOS was meant to be hackable, and all you need to do is enable developer mode by typing in a certain (very widely published) string in the main search box to unhide the dev mode toggle application. If only all mobile device manufacturers were that willing to let users control their own gadgets...