Flammable? Heck yes! The outer skin was covered in a substance which is almost exactly the same as the stuff they put in SRBs on space shuttles...
Oopsy.
Well if it's a new program, there won't be any cracks available yet.;)
But really, when looking at a new program, there are many things that might change my mind. Depending on the size and reputation of your company, your program might look suspiciously like something incorporating spyware. Or, I might go look around and find another program that does what I want better. Or, it might turn out that what I really want to use your program for is only available after I register; or it features and unisghtly watermark, or annoying nag message.
Or I might just change my mind. Or, if I'm running XP (which I'm not, thank God) my whole computer might just explode in shame.:)
Um, only if we are both using the computers flat-out. If either me or my neighbour has processor cycles going to waste, then the other coomputer can use them and hey presto! we are going faster.
Perhaps he means that they are meant to be able to protect against big companies stealing small people's ideas and changing them *just* enough to avoid the patent and thus make millions.
Thanks all you guys:) I think I am pretty well set now. Especially thanks to those guys who pointed me to Windows rippers, because yes, I am still sadly an M$ luser... but not forever, one hopes.
I would like to use Ogg Vorbis, but as you probably know there is a sparse few number of them available to download from the P2P community, and I can't seem to find a nice easy Ogg-compatible ripper anywhere... does anyone know of an easy-to-use program which can rip to.ogg (as well as other formats perhaps)? I seem to be restricted to Mp3 only until I can find a nice app.
That would be nice, but there are always problems:
How do you define 'force'? Supposing a lot of people verbally assault a person? Supposing a lot of people ignore a person all the time? (I'll be nice and assume that 'force' means physical force, verbal assualt, imprisonment, slander, et al.)
How much force can be used before it ceases to be moral and legal?
Is force allowed to be used in cases where people must be held during legal proceedings, but it is unclear whether any person involved has actually used or threatened force?
Is using force against those who do not abide by this Constitution a valid exception?
Do you think you could see your way clear to emailing me a copy? I would love to peruse it, but sadly I don't think he will reply to the (Hotmail) email I sent him requesting it...
Email link
Ah, but then how would M$ continue to squeeze money out of its victims? New crap = new money.
Personally, I will not buy any software newer than Win98 and Office 2K, and that's too recent. As soon as I get around to finding out more about that Linux gizmo, I'm hopping on the bandwagon...
"Company officials say two former workers acted with malice by putting up about 14,000 postings on 100 message boards."
"Last month, a California appeals court ruled against a fired Intel employee, Ken Hamidi. He had sent e-mails to as many as 35,000 workers airing grievances; Intel officials say they took legal action only after asking him to stop."
(My bolding, clearly)
It seems as though the cases highlighted were approaching a point where they could be considered spam, harssment, or something like that; an unreasonable level of mails/messages, anyway. No doubt many people not reading the actual story will run away with the idea that any derogatory postings will be punished, but 1) That's stupid, and 2) It would be impossible to track the people and you know it.
Anyone sending out this much derogatory mail should expect some retaliation. And sheesh, 14,000 messages? 35,000 emails? How pissed off can a guy get (without even suing his company for something-or-other)? Never mind whether I worked for any company, if I sent out that much stuff about anyone or anything I would be surprised if they didn't want a little word in my ear.
So don't worry, you're still safe to flame Jon Katz;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Buy an iBook, and then claim your prize.
Which will be larger... the XBox, or the hackers hired to break it?
Flammable? Heck yes! The outer skin was covered in a substance which is almost exactly the same as the stuff they put in SRBs on space shuttles... Oopsy.
Well if it's a new program, there won't be any cracks available yet. ;)
But really, when looking at a new program, there are many things that might change my mind. Depending on the size and reputation of your company, your program might look suspiciously like something incorporating spyware. Or, I might go look around and find another program that does what I want better. Or, it might turn out that what I really want to use your program for is only available after I register; or it features and unisghtly watermark, or annoying nag message.
Or I might just change my mind. Or, if I'm running XP (which I'm not, thank God) my whole computer might just explode in shame. :)
At last! Now I can finally eat my peanut butter sandwiches and stick this damn thing to my cat's back.
Um, only if we are both using the computers flat-out. If either me or my neighbour has processor cycles going to waste, then the other coomputer can use them and hey presto! we are going faster.
Aim true, my friend. ;-)
But wait! If they have porn filtering, how will they recieve their daily spam?? Won't somebody please think of the children!?
But probably not. :(
Alex Chiu must be kicking himself over this one...
Thanks all you guys :) I think I am pretty well set now. Especially thanks to those guys who pointed me to Windows rippers, because yes, I am still sadly an M$ luser... but not forever, one hopes.
I would like to use Ogg Vorbis, but as you probably know there is a sparse few number of them available to download from the P2P community, and I can't seem to find a nice easy Ogg-compatible ripper anywhere... does anyone know of an easy-to-use program which can rip to .ogg (as well as other formats perhaps)? I seem to be restricted to Mp3 only until I can find a nice app.
Slashdot. Tripod.
Think about it...
Some people prefer low-tech to high tech; I personally think it would be far more fun to do it frame-by-frame.
Sheesh... just call the damn thing 'Portholes'. :-)
Maybe I should nip over to the website and fill out the form...
Yes, that would be moronic, since the most common atom is hydrogen. Tee hee hee.
(Uh oh, here comes the modstick...)
- How do you define 'force'? Supposing a lot of people verbally assault a person? Supposing a lot of people ignore a person all the time? (I'll be nice and assume that 'force' means physical force, verbal assualt, imprisonment, slander, et al.)
- How much force can be used before it ceases to be moral and legal?
- Is force allowed to be used in cases where people must be held during legal proceedings, but it is unclear whether any person involved has actually used or threatened force?
- Is using force against those who do not abide by this Constitution a valid exception?
SorryDo you think you could see your way clear to emailing me a copy? I would love to peruse it, but sadly I don't think he will reply to the (Hotmail) email I sent him requesting it... Email link
Personally, I will not buy any software newer than Win98 and Office 2K, and that's too recent. As soon as I get around to finding out more about that Linux gizmo, I'm hopping on the bandwagon...
I'm gonna whoop him good.
- Take a file, any file. The aforementioned Matrix movie, for example. Now, line up ALL the bits in the wonderfully huge thing.
- So you have a massively long string of 1s and 0s. Resolve into a decimal number. (I know this acheives nothing, but bear with me).
- Create a mathematical algorithm to which the answer will be this number. (Clearly can be quite small; x(to the power of)21 + 4 or something.)
- Convert this algorithm into binary (imagine it in decimal for simplicity;s sake).
- Go to 3, and reapeat at will.
No doubt there is a very fine reason why this is idiotic and won't work, but I'm not much of a geek so please tell it to me. Nicely."Last month, a California appeals court ruled against a fired Intel employee, Ken Hamidi. He had sent e-mails to as many as 35,000 workers airing grievances; Intel officials say they took legal action only after asking him to stop."
(My bolding, clearly)
It seems as though the cases highlighted were approaching a point where they could be considered spam, harssment, or something like that; an unreasonable level of mails/messages, anyway. No doubt many people not reading the actual story will run away with the idea that any derogatory postings will be punished, but 1) That's stupid, and 2) It would be impossible to track the people and you know it.
Anyone sending out this much derogatory mail should expect some retaliation. And sheesh, 14,000 messages? 35,000 emails? How pissed off can a guy get (without even suing his company for something-or-other)? Never mind whether I worked for any company, if I sent out that much stuff about anyone or anything I would be surprised if they didn't want a little word in my ear.
So don't worry, you're still safe to flame Jon Katz ;-)