The electronics industry actually predates today's culture of quivering, trembling, pants-wetting terror of anything that might even hint at liability. Have a look in electronics magazines from the 60's: "Hey kids! Build your own Tesla Coil in your back yard!"
Honor isn't a who, it's a what. Each kill of an enemy player of appropriate level, and certain enemy creatures, nets you some honor points. Honor points can be used to get better equipment for your character.
Alterac Valley is one of the "battleground instances", ie games within the game. Teams of 40 people each start in bases at either end of a map. The object is to fight your way to the enemy's base and kill their general. The map has terrain, NPC guards, rez points, etc to make things interesting. Because of the sheer number of enemy players, the length of a typical game, and the fact that killing any individual player is worth less honor each time, AV is generally considered to give the best honor per hour.
I've been using Wine under Ubuntu 6.06 to run WoW for about two months. As of this morning, it was working fine.:) Caveats: (1) FPS is about 1/2 to 3/4 what you would get on the same machine under Windows. (2) Nvidia driver conflicts will break your X server every time Synaptic updates the X packages, and it is a headache to fix.
However, WoW itself is well-behaved, and I'm very happy not to have to worry about keyloggers, ActiveX scripts, and all the miscellaneous malware that ten million jacktards are busily writing for WinXP.
If all else fails, just scan a printout as an image, OCR it to make it searchable, check the OCR output to make sur3 no 0CR=typo5 get introduced, and save it as the image with the OCR output as comment text.
Things only get Latin names if they're new species. This is a malformation that afflicts an individual member of a species that may or may not already be known. It certainly deserves an individual name (like the Australopithecus "Lucy"), and Zaphod is a good choice.
There are in fact several possible circles of Hell in which the soul of Mr Ballmer might forever weep and wail (from the wikipedia entry).
Fourth Circle. Those whose concern for material goods deviated from the desired mean are punished in this circle. They include the avaricious or miserly, who hoarded possessions, and the prodigal, who squandered them. Guarded by Plutus, each group pushes a great weight against the heavy weight of the other group. After the weights crash together the process starts over again. (Canto VII)
Eighth Circle. The fraudulent--those guilty of deliberate, knowing evil--are located in a circle named Malebolge ("Evil Pockets"), divided into ten ditches, with bridges spanning the ditches: # Bolgia 8: Fraudulent advisors are encased in individual flames. Dante includes Ulysses and Diomedes together here for their role in the Trojan War. Ulysses tells the tale of his fatal final voyage, where he left his home and family to sail to the end of the Earth. He equated life as a pursuit of knowledge that humanity can attain through effort, and in his search God sank his ship outside of Mount Purgatory. This symbolizes the inability of the individual to carve out one's own salvation. Instead, one must be totally subservient to the will of God and realize the inability of one to be a God unto oneself. Guido da Montefeltro recounts how his advice to Pope Boniface VIII resulted in his damnation, despite Boniface's promise of absolution. (Cantos XXVI and XXVII) # Bolgia 9: A sword-wielding devil hacks at the sowers of discord. As they make their rounds the wounds heal, only to have the devil tear apart their bodies again. Muhammad tells Dante to warn the schismatic and heretic Fra Dolcino. (Cantos XXVIII and XXIX) # Bolgia 10: Groups of various sorts of falsifiers (alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impersonators) are afflicted with different types of diseases. (Cantos XXIX and XXX)
If there is a customer of both you and I, who is considering buying a thing we both sell, and that customer chooses to buy mine rather than yours, I have deprived you of a potential sale. And yet, that's all OK.
It's not "stealing", you moron, it's copyright violation. If I stole something from you (eg, your unused brain), then you would no longer have it. While copyright violation is to some extent a wrong, it is a separate wrong from stealing. You idiots could just as accurately yap about "overtaking other people's IP across double-yellow lines" or "building low-rent houses without council-approved structural supports over other people's IP" or "loitering outside other people's IP". Why don't you? Oh, that's right, you gain an emotive advantage in the argument by lying. Heh, as if showing a respect for truth is a reason not to gain an advantage, in this day and age? Why, that'd be... it'd be... almost as silly as not copying a piece of software for free!
Because: (a) some people commit actual crimes (like, the kind with victims) on the internet, and the ISP's logs are equivalent to the film from the CCTV camera across the street from a robbed bank; (b) there are good technical reasons, ie statistical data used for load-balancing purposes, network expansion, upgrade scheduling etc, for keeping logs (although obviously, stripping out identifying data ought to be done wherever this doesn't interfere with that purpose); (c) to some extent, keeping "logs" as such is an unavoidable consequence of doing what an ISP does. Functions like billing depend on logs. If they didn't keep logs, what recourse do you have if they bill you for 100GB over-quota usage during the month?
As with any other business you deal with, the difference between "monitoring customers" and "keeping business records" gets a bit blurry. A plumber keeps a "log" of whose house he visits, what he does in each house, what materials he uses, and how much he charges each householder. He probably calls this log a "receipt book". Obviously this book is unlikely to contain evidence of a crime, but that's due to the different nature of the plumber's business, not the fact that he keeps logs.
It seems the solution has been staring us all in the face: someone must write a simple program to use the revealed code, that can be carried on a USB stick and used to modify votes. Then publicize the existence of this program. Since the election will clearly be fraudulent, and Mr Michael Mouse will be unable to take up more than one of the seats he has won, the election will have to be re-done, quickly, and un-hackably (ie, uncomputerised).
Google's directors know very well that they have provoked a fight. My guess (I don't think I'm smarter than them, so I stress that this is a guess) is that their intention is:
1. Acquire YouTube.
2. Do a merge-and-sort operation on YouTube with GoogleVideo.
3. Heavily promote the new service.
4. Publicize attacks from copyright-holders, while staving them off with court delays, offers of settlements, etc.
5. Repeat 3. and 4. until the great unwashed masses wake up to the annoying disconnect between what they want to do and what some rich bastards will let them do, and because Google has been telling them a lot lately, they realize that this is due to those rich bastards having bought copyright laws.
6. Use the popular momentum to get the parts of copyright law that are bothersome to Google's business--and probably, also those parts that the removal of which wouldn't harm Google's business--carved out.
Not to get too conspiratorial about it... but YouTube would be missed by a hundred million people. If it gets shut down, Google will get a lever it needs to get copyright law changed for the better. Particularly if the USA votes the right way (or at least doesn't vote the god-awful, ludicrously incompetent, corrupt, evil, and stupid party back in).
Granted, people with a political agenda would have hammered him even if he'd told the truth from the get-go,
No shit, Sherlock.
During the Clinton administration the dirty Repugs spent 140 hours of Congress's time investigating 'abuses' of Clinton's Xmas card list. That's 10 times as much time as they spent on the Abu Ghraib scandal.
I "understood" the first time. Your assertion is still stupidly wrong. In copying a file for which one has no copyright permission, nothing occurs that is analogous (or metaphorical) to knocking a person in the head. The copyright holder is vanishingly unlikely to be aware of the copying. Perhaps you can be knocked in the head without noticing, but most folks can't. Further, the physical damage to the person's head and the removal of their wallet are two harms done. The harm done by copyright violation is a theoretical potential reduction in future earnings. In practice of course this reduction is offset by purchase of copies and/or similar products, like the rest of a TV series on DVD, sourced from the copyright holder.
To "take" something, very importantly, involves its removal, which in the context of files, would be deletion. Unless you've brightly set your operating system up that way--and I'm in no way saying that you haven't--copying and deletion are separate actions.
You are trying to stretch the loss of an opportunity to be given money (for a copy of a CD; amazingly, the RIAA do not delete the master copies of CDs they produce) into an actual loss of money. The RIAA have spent a lot of time propagandizing to idiots like you to persuade you of their agenda, an agenda which might help them if they can get over the PR backlash, and actually does harm you. These assholes would, if it were in their power, prevent you from letting your friends watch TV shows you have recorded.
In civilized nations, barratry isn't as easy, because we operate under the rule of loser pays winner's costs, which greatly discourages people who are unsure that they will win from filing lawsuits, rather than the unfortunate American approach of each party paying their own costs. But then, depth of pocket triumphs over morality and common sense in all other aspects of American life, why not the courts too?
I've yet to see any unionized employment that really rewarded outstanding performance and recognized that some people are just inherently better at some jobs than others. And generally any attempt to do this is opposed, tooth and nail, by the unions.
The mechanism for rewarding outstanding performance exists: it's called promotion.
I've yet to read the story, but it's not how I would have done it. Captain America, above all others, is the zeitgeist of the USA. As such, he needs to be the last to firmly make up his mind about opposing forces, because what he does establishes the right thing to do and thereby ends the story. He OUGHT to be paralyzed with indecision. He OUGHT to spend this conflict of ideologies being shown for a single frame about every second page: Sitting on his fattening ass eating cheetos. Watching TV. Playing a computer game. Jacking off in the bathroom. Lying in bed shivering, unable to decide whether or not to get up. Et cetera.
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The electronics industry actually predates today's culture of quivering, trembling, pants-wetting terror of anything that might even hint at liability. Have a look in electronics magazines from the 60's: "Hey kids! Build your own Tesla Coil in your back yard!"
Alterac Valley is one of the "battleground instances", ie games within the game. Teams of 40 people each start in bases at either end of a map. The object is to fight your way to the enemy's base and kill their general. The map has terrain, NPC guards, rez points, etc to make things interesting. Because of the sheer number of enemy players, the length of a typical game, and the fact that killing any individual player is worth less honor each time, AV is generally considered to give the best honor per hour.
However, WoW itself is well-behaved, and I'm very happy not to have to worry about keyloggers, ActiveX scripts, and all the miscellaneous malware that ten million jacktards are busily writing for WinXP.
If all else fails, just scan a printout as an image, OCR it to make it searchable, check the OCR output to make sur3 no 0CR=typo5 get introduced, and save it as the image with the OCR output as comment text.
Things only get Latin names if they're new species. This is a malformation that afflicts an individual member of a species that may or may not already be known. It certainly deserves an individual name (like the Australopithecus "Lucy"), and Zaphod is a good choice.
A conservative would curse the spirits of the lightbulb for making it dark, and then set fire to the room.
There are in fact several possible circles of Hell in which the soul of Mr Ballmer might forever weep and wail (from the wikipedia entry).
Fourth Circle. Those whose concern for material goods deviated from the desired mean are punished in this circle. They include the avaricious or miserly, who hoarded possessions, and the prodigal, who squandered them. Guarded by Plutus, each group pushes a great weight against the heavy weight of the other group. After the weights crash together the process starts over again. (Canto VII)
Eighth Circle. The fraudulent--those guilty of deliberate, knowing evil--are located in a circle named Malebolge ("Evil Pockets"), divided into ten ditches, with bridges spanning the ditches:
# Bolgia 8: Fraudulent advisors are encased in individual flames. Dante includes Ulysses and Diomedes together here for their role in the Trojan War. Ulysses tells the tale of his fatal final voyage, where he left his home and family to sail to the end of the Earth. He equated life as a pursuit of knowledge that humanity can attain through effort, and in his search God sank his ship outside of Mount Purgatory. This symbolizes the inability of the individual to carve out one's own salvation. Instead, one must be totally subservient to the will of God and realize the inability of one to be a God unto oneself. Guido da Montefeltro recounts how his advice to Pope Boniface VIII resulted in his damnation, despite Boniface's promise of absolution. (Cantos XXVI and XXVII)
# Bolgia 9: A sword-wielding devil hacks at the sowers of discord. As they make their rounds the wounds heal, only to have the devil tear apart their bodies again. Muhammad tells Dante to warn the schismatic and heretic Fra Dolcino. (Cantos XXVIII and XXIX)
# Bolgia 10: Groups of various sorts of falsifiers (alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impersonators) are afflicted with different types of diseases. (Cantos XXIX and XXX)
At least he won't weep and wail alone.
Linux is a version of Unix, which predates Windows by about 13 years.
If there is a customer of both you and I, who is considering buying a thing we both sell, and that customer chooses to buy mine rather than yours, I have deprived you of a potential sale. And yet, that's all OK.
It's not "stealing", you moron, it's copyright violation. If I stole something from you (eg, your unused brain), then you would no longer have it. While copyright violation is to some extent a wrong, it is a separate wrong from stealing. You idiots could just as accurately yap about "overtaking other people's IP across double-yellow lines" or "building low-rent houses without council-approved structural supports over other people's IP" or "loitering outside other people's IP". Why don't you? Oh, that's right, you gain an emotive advantage in the argument by lying. Heh, as if showing a respect for truth is a reason not to gain an advantage, in this day and age? Why, that'd be ... it'd be ... almost as silly as not copying a piece of software for free!
As with any other business you deal with, the difference between "monitoring customers" and "keeping business records" gets a bit blurry. A plumber keeps a "log" of whose house he visits, what he does in each house, what materials he uses, and how much he charges each householder. He probably calls this log a "receipt book". Obviously this book is unlikely to contain evidence of a crime, but that's due to the different nature of the plumber's business, not the fact that he keeps logs.
It seems the solution has been staring us all in the face: someone must write a simple program to use the revealed code, that can be carried on a USB stick and used to modify votes. Then publicize the existence of this program. Since the election will clearly be fraudulent, and Mr Michael Mouse will be unable to take up more than one of the seats he has won, the election will have to be re-done, quickly, and un-hackably (ie, uncomputerised).
1. Acquire YouTube.
2. Do a merge-and-sort operation on YouTube with GoogleVideo.
3. Heavily promote the new service.
4. Publicize attacks from copyright-holders, while staving them off with court delays, offers of settlements, etc.
5. Repeat 3. and 4. until the great unwashed masses wake up to the annoying disconnect between what they want to do and what some rich bastards will let them do, and because Google has been telling them a lot lately, they realize that this is due to those rich bastards having bought copyright laws.
6. Use the popular momentum to get the parts of copyright law that are bothersome to Google's business--and probably, also those parts that the removal of which wouldn't harm Google's business--carved out.
Not to get too conspiratorial about it ... but YouTube would be missed by a hundred million people. If it gets shut down, Google will get a lever it needs to get copyright law changed for the better. Particularly if the USA votes the right way (or at least doesn't vote the god-awful, ludicrously incompetent, corrupt, evil, and stupid party back in).
No shit, Sherlock.
During the Clinton administration the dirty Repugs spent 140 hours of Congress's time investigating 'abuses' of Clinton's Xmas card list. That's 10 times as much time as they spent on the Abu Ghraib scandal.
To "take" something, very importantly, involves its removal, which in the context of files, would be deletion. Unless you've brightly set your operating system up that way--and I'm in no way saying that you haven't--copying and deletion are separate actions.
You are trying to stretch the loss of an opportunity to be given money (for a copy of a CD; amazingly, the RIAA do not delete the master copies of CDs they produce) into an actual loss of money. The RIAA have spent a lot of time propagandizing to idiots like you to persuade you of their agenda, an agenda which might help them if they can get over the PR backlash, and actually does harm you. These assholes would, if it were in their power, prevent you from letting your friends watch TV shows you have recorded.
Why the hell are you enabling them?
Knocking him over the head? Taking? Somehow I doubt you know how filesharing works.
In civilized nations, barratry isn't as easy, because we operate under the rule of loser pays winner's costs, which greatly discourages people who are unsure that they will win from filing lawsuits, rather than the unfortunate American approach of each party paying their own costs. But then, depth of pocket triumphs over morality and common sense in all other aspects of American life, why not the courts too?
I've yet to see any unionized employment that really rewarded outstanding performance and recognized that some people are just inherently better at some jobs than others. And generally any attempt to do this is opposed, tooth and nail, by the unions. The mechanism for rewarding outstanding performance exists: it's called promotion.
I've yet to read the story, but it's not how I would have done it. Captain America, above all others, is the zeitgeist of the USA. As such, he needs to be the last to firmly make up his mind about opposing forces, because what he does establishes the right thing to do and thereby ends the story. He OUGHT to be paralyzed with indecision. He OUGHT to spend this conflict of ideologies being shown for a single frame about every second page: Sitting on his fattening ass eating cheetos. Watching TV. Playing a computer game. Jacking off in the bathroom. Lying in bed shivering, unable to decide whether or not to get up. Et cetera.
I'm gonna go with "final eight".
There should be a way to get around this sort of problem - making your IP look like it originates in the US or somewhere.
Apparently the "right" not to be offended does exist in the USA, and is Constitutional, for it is that "right" alone that the FTC exists to uphold.
You don't really get how BIG the Sun is, do you? :)
Everyone who died crossing the road thought he/she could do so safely too, and had many times before. Should we outlaw road-crossing too?