Lets just get all the stations to be 10 minutes apart from each other so that no one will be able to record consistantly with Tivo.
While we're at it, lets also stop movies at the theater 10 minutes before the end to start the previews for the next one. But lets leave the advertisements the same length.
Eventually, people will be paying to see the advertisements and ten minutes of a random part of some movie!
I mean, the trend is leaning more and more corporate every year. When is voting going to become a show when what really matters is corporate backing? Oh wait, its half way there already.
Don't like what your customers are doing with your products? Write a law against them, push it through the court. Soon, your opposition is arrested or forced to stop doing what you don't like.
Don't like another business? Write a law against them, push it through the court. Soon, your opposition is arrested or forced out of business.
They're hoping that just maybe their superior sales skills and experience can con you into buying something you don't want, or falling prey to a scam. Getting the first few words in will make or break a deal.
Thats why they try so hard. They have to 'get their foot in the door'.
One company called me and was selling computers (used) and I asked them if I had done business with them before. They said no, and I asked them for their company name. They then replied that they knew what I was doing, and that it wouldn't work. They hung up.
I called the phone company. Called ID said something to the affect of Unknown or Unlisted, and the phone company said that since they were unlisted, they couldn't give me any information.
I told them that said company was in violation of the DNC list, and that I intended to report them to the proper authorities, and they said that they STILL couldn't give me any info.
If Microsoft could allow images to run code when viewed, I guess video files are no different. Watch out all you porn viewers using Windows Media Player.
Your modem is about to disconnect and dial The Czech Republic.
There are still a shitload of people that get nothing but headshots on CS:S with scores of 10x kills to x deaths.
There are still people that know where EVERYONE's at, and you better believe they're coming for you in your new secret random hiding spot that's way out of the way. Likely aiming for your head through the wall.
There are still people that run faster than you, reload faster, shoot faster, etc. There are still people that will almost always win because all they have to do is push a button. They don't have to aim, use strategy, or anything.
Their CHEATS do it for them. Steam hasn't prevented these, because a third of the CS:S players still cheat, and obviously.
So monitoring a phone line is wiretapping. What about monitoring the cord between the handset and the phone?
Same difference here. 9 times out of 10, a computer is used to communicate with another computer in the workplace, or beyond the workplace. Monitoring the connection between the keyboard and the PC is monitoring interstate communication.
They willl promptly be shut down for violating some law they just enacted specifically against that company to raise profits of the 'traditional' manufacturers.
Skeptical?
Right-to-profit is now becoming the next big thing. No more skipping commercials. No more fast forwarding through trailers. No more choices. Corporations have a right to profit, and they will lie/cheat/steal/sue to protect that.
Good game, bad delivery.
Unlocking the game took me 20 minutes, and that was STILL too long to wait after installing several CDs worth of mass. For some, it took a lot longer. The backup thing is great. Points there.
The system requirements are a little high, and the ATI/Nvidia thing is kind of shady. However, the loading times and the stuttering kill the game. Its like walking into an art museum with strobe lights and a lot of heavy smokers around.
The game could be so much cooler.
Like an earlier poster said. Glass it all into big lumps of glass. Now that its stable, put a bunch of thermocouples around them, or sink them in a big vat of water and use a similar method to the way they get geothermal energy. If you do it right, you can have a decent energy source that could probably actually profit over time.
Of course, anything 'dangerous' is likely wanted to be buried and forgotten about than used for the greater good of man.
The only problems I see with this are location, stable design, and makeup of whats being stored/exploited, and sorting it all out.
I can't even get AGP support working on my SiS730 ECS board to get my 5700LE working at full speed. It just crashes repatedly and won't make it into Windows without severe corruption.
Last thing I need is to shell out $200 for something that will be %2 faster than what I have.
Remember a long time ago when people bitched about modded systems, saying that "It doesn't affect anyone else, its our property, fair use, etc?"
Well, by running a modded system on the Live network, their security is potentially breached. Sorry, but that easily has the potential to affect other people.
Would you pay to play on a service where people cheat and wipe the floor with even the most hardened veteran of ?
While I don't have much against a free market, this is clearly abuse. We take skilled workers, and treat them like shit. People that are great programmers, talented minds, etc. We run them through the dirt and then don't even have the common courtesy to give them overtime.
My father is a construction worker. 5 or 6 years ago, his company started pulling the same thing. He would go in at 8am, and not get home until 10pm or 11pm each night. Sometimes on Saturdays. They did, however, get overtime.
A month of this went by. People were tired. They were cranky. Accidents happened at work all the time, usually involving equipment damage or damage to whatever they were working on. They just didn't get much done in a 14 hour day.
Thankfully, the management saw what was going on and when that job was completed later that month, everyone was given a big bonus, an apology, and promises that they weren't going to set their 'completion dates' that low again.
It was depressing to watch my dad come in, after a 12 or 14 hour day, eat, shower, and go to bed, knowing that in a few hours, he'd have to be right back at work for another 12 to 14 hours. It was barely worth it in my opinion, even with overtime.
EA's shit should be a warning to other companies of what not to do.
If they can't get American workers to work for 80+ hours a week with no overtime, they sure as Hell can get immigrant workers to do it for half the price either overseas or with the help of 'work' passports.
We should be thankful that they've not chosen to go overseas yet.
Lets just up and hand Microsoft the keys to the Internet. So every other company that has invested even one dollar in internet infrastructure or internet-capable programs will lose a lot of money from whatever Microsoft will do with it.
Then, all these said companies can sue Microsoft (not a class action, individual cases) and they will absolutely slashdot Microsoft's legal funds.
Once that's done, they'll have to tap into their reserves. If these companies can bare their chests to such financial loss and paperwork, Microsoft would be wiped out. Someone could take the things that Microsoft sealed up, and free them.
Unfortunately, someone would claim them for themselves, much like a certain human claimed the Ring.
And your nation or city can't do anything about them? All they'd have to do is get a few pictures, I'm sure most of the gang members are in some kind of databse already.
Thats when you send an undercover officer to ask one of them for a light, and when the guy tries to stab the officer, he gets shot and is the 'official' step into the investigation that gets the rest of the gang hauled off / killed.
Society is no place for packs people of that calibur. If they want to act like that, shoot them, or send them to the middle of the tropical rain forest.
The middle man is what you have to do to destroy something they own. Want to destroy a building in Iraq in a non-nuclear way? Well, you have to move a ship close enough. Then you have to launch a plane, or launch a missile.
Other nations get slightly disturbed whenever someone moves to within missile/plane range of their country.
ICBMs weren't so much feared for their nuclear capability as they were feared for their range. Push a button, something goes boom.
Same thing with this. It'll be a race. We build them, the Russians build them, the Chinese build them. We destroy one of theirs, they destroy all of ours. Mutually Assured Satellite destruction.
There needs to be a much easier way of voting people out of office. Voting them out of office of mayor, member of congress, or the president himself.
As of now, they can reisntate the draft like the want to, introduce draconian Big Brother type laws, punish pirates as terrorists, etc, and nothing can be done about it.
But what if a few people got voted out of office for it? That'd change their minds!
Microsoft forced me to pay $100 something for WindowsME back when I bought my laptop. Because no laptop in the area (I check 10+ places) came without a copy of Windows.
Therefore, I sure didn't feel bad when I turned around and installed my copy of Windows 98SE on it. No install CD, no key, nothing. Just a restore CD that put the unstable copy of Windows ME back on there.
There should be a law against the Microsoft tax. What if you had to buy a $200 shitty music CD compilation with every CD player?
What if your car came with a warranty, but you had to pay extra past the agreed-upon price because they think you might be able to use your car in a crime?
etc.
This isn't java, this isn't ActiveX. This isn't obscure or anything. This is a common deal. Its one of the most fundamental things about web-browsing besides the text!
The pictures.
So now the pictures can bite just as hard (if not harder) than java or ActiveX things. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves. Letting this kind of bug slip past them.
I bet there's a buffer overflow or critical exploit in Notepad or Minesweeper that would compromise networks and serve the hacker free pizza if you looked at 'infected' text.
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Lets just get all the stations to be 10 minutes apart from each other so that no one will be able to record consistantly with Tivo.
While we're at it, lets also stop movies at the theater 10 minutes before the end to start the previews for the next one. But lets leave the advertisements the same length.
Eventually, people will be paying to see the advertisements and ten minutes of a random part of some movie!
Brilliant.
That'll teach those pirates!
Think of the children!
What does it fucking matter?
I mean, the trend is leaning more and more corporate every year. When is voting going to become a show when what really matters is corporate backing? Oh wait, its half way there already.
Don't like what your customers are doing with your products? Write a law against them, push it through the court. Soon, your opposition is arrested or forced to stop doing what you don't like.
Don't like another business? Write a law against them, push it through the court. Soon, your opposition is arrested or forced out of business.
They're hoping that just maybe their superior sales skills and experience can con you into buying something you don't want, or falling prey to a scam. Getting the first few words in will make or break a deal.
Thats why they try so hard. They have to 'get their foot in the door'.
One company called me and was selling computers (used) and I asked them if I had done business with them before. They said no, and I asked them for their company name. They then replied that they knew what I was doing, and that it wouldn't work. They hung up.
I called the phone company. Called ID said something to the affect of Unknown or Unlisted, and the phone company said that since they were unlisted, they couldn't give me any information.
I told them that said company was in violation of the DNC list, and that I intended to report them to the proper authorities, and they said that they STILL couldn't give me any info.
If Microsoft could allow images to run code when viewed, I guess video files are no different. Watch out all you porn viewers using Windows Media Player.
Your modem is about to disconnect and dial The Czech Republic.
Is it going to support those annoying-as-piss instructions in some files that open IE and point it to random websites?
There are still a shitload of people that get nothing but headshots on CS:S with scores of 10x kills to x deaths.
There are still people that know where EVERYONE's at, and you better believe they're coming for you in your new secret random hiding spot that's way out of the way. Likely aiming for your head through the wall.
There are still people that run faster than you, reload faster, shoot faster, etc. There are still people that will almost always win because all they have to do is push a button. They don't have to aim, use strategy, or anything.
Their CHEATS do it for them. Steam hasn't prevented these, because a third of the CS:S players still cheat, and obviously.
Like an earlier poster said.
Can of worms.
So monitoring a phone line is wiretapping. What about monitoring the cord between the handset and the phone?
Same difference here. 9 times out of 10, a computer is used to communicate with another computer in the workplace, or beyond the workplace. Monitoring the connection between the keyboard and the PC is monitoring interstate communication.
And..
They willl promptly be shut down for violating some law they just enacted specifically against that company to raise profits of the 'traditional' manufacturers.
Skeptical?
Right-to-profit is now becoming the next big thing. No more skipping commercials. No more fast forwarding through trailers. No more choices. Corporations have a right to profit, and they will lie/cheat/steal/sue to protect that.
Good game, bad delivery. Unlocking the game took me 20 minutes, and that was STILL too long to wait after installing several CDs worth of mass. For some, it took a lot longer. The backup thing is great. Points there. The system requirements are a little high, and the ATI/Nvidia thing is kind of shady. However, the loading times and the stuttering kill the game. Its like walking into an art museum with strobe lights and a lot of heavy smokers around. The game could be so much cooler.
Like an earlier poster said. Glass it all into big lumps of glass. Now that its stable, put a bunch of thermocouples around them, or sink them in a big vat of water and use a similar method to the way they get geothermal energy. If you do it right, you can have a decent energy source that could probably actually profit over time.
Of course, anything 'dangerous' is likely wanted to be buried and forgotten about than used for the greater good of man.
The only problems I see with this are location, stable design, and makeup of whats being stored/exploited, and sorting it all out.
And bake me a pie while you're at it!
I can't even get AGP support working on my SiS730 ECS board to get my 5700LE working at full speed. It just crashes repatedly and won't make it into Windows without severe corruption.
Last thing I need is to shell out $200 for something that will be %2 faster than what I have.
Remember a long time ago when people bitched about modded systems, saying that "It doesn't affect anyone else, its our property, fair use, etc?"
Well, by running a modded system on the Live network, their security is potentially breached. Sorry, but that easily has the potential to affect other people.
Would you pay to play on a service where people cheat and wipe the floor with even the most hardened veteran of ?
While I don't have much against a free market, this is clearly abuse. We take skilled workers, and treat them like shit. People that are great programmers, talented minds, etc. We run them through the dirt and then don't even have the common courtesy to give them overtime.
My father is a construction worker. 5 or 6 years ago, his company started pulling the same thing. He would go in at 8am, and not get home until 10pm or 11pm each night. Sometimes on Saturdays. They did, however, get overtime.
A month of this went by. People were tired. They were cranky. Accidents happened at work all the time, usually involving equipment damage or damage to whatever they were working on. They just didn't get much done in a 14 hour day.
Thankfully, the management saw what was going on and when that job was completed later that month, everyone was given a big bonus, an apology, and promises that they weren't going to set their 'completion dates' that low again.
It was depressing to watch my dad come in, after a 12 or 14 hour day, eat, shower, and go to bed, knowing that in a few hours, he'd have to be right back at work for another 12 to 14 hours. It was barely worth it in my opinion, even with overtime.
EA's shit should be a warning to other companies of what not to do.
If they can't get American workers to work for 80+ hours a week with no overtime, they sure as Hell can get immigrant workers to do it for half the price either overseas or with the help of 'work' passports.
We should be thankful that they've not chosen to go overseas yet.
Wow, they can see the future!
They've been telling people for YEARS that anything under the top-of-the-line computer won't be able to send email or brose the internet!
Lets just up and hand Microsoft the keys to the Internet. So every other company that has invested even one dollar in internet infrastructure or internet-capable programs will lose a lot of money from whatever Microsoft will do with it. Then, all these said companies can sue Microsoft (not a class action, individual cases) and they will absolutely slashdot Microsoft's legal funds. Once that's done, they'll have to tap into their reserves. If these companies can bare their chests to such financial loss and paperwork, Microsoft would be wiped out. Someone could take the things that Microsoft sealed up, and free them. Unfortunately, someone would claim them for themselves, much like a certain human claimed the Ring.
And your nation or city can't do anything about them? All they'd have to do is get a few pictures, I'm sure most of the gang members are in some kind of databse already.
Thats when you send an undercover officer to ask one of them for a light, and when the guy tries to stab the officer, he gets shot and is the 'official' step into the investigation that gets the rest of the gang hauled off / killed.
Society is no place for packs people of that calibur. If they want to act like that, shoot them, or send them to the middle of the tropical rain forest.
Political zerg.
The middle man is what you have to do to destroy something they own. Want to destroy a building in Iraq in a non-nuclear way? Well, you have to move a ship close enough. Then you have to launch a plane, or launch a missile. Other nations get slightly disturbed whenever someone moves to within missile/plane range of their country. ICBMs weren't so much feared for their nuclear capability as they were feared for their range. Push a button, something goes boom. Same thing with this. It'll be a race. We build them, the Russians build them, the Chinese build them. We destroy one of theirs, they destroy all of ours. Mutually Assured Satellite destruction.
*hasn't R'edTFA yet*
Johnny-5 better be on there. The Short Circuit series was the shit.
There needs to be a much easier way of voting people out of office. Voting them out of office of mayor, member of congress, or the president himself.
As of now, they can reisntate the draft like the want to, introduce draconian Big Brother type laws, punish pirates as terrorists, etc, and nothing can be done about it.
But what if a few people got voted out of office for it? That'd change their minds!
Microsoft forced me to pay $100 something for WindowsME back when I bought my laptop. Because no laptop in the area (I check 10+ places) came without a copy of Windows. Therefore, I sure didn't feel bad when I turned around and installed my copy of Windows 98SE on it. No install CD, no key, nothing. Just a restore CD that put the unstable copy of Windows ME back on there. There should be a law against the Microsoft tax. What if you had to buy a $200 shitty music CD compilation with every CD player? What if your car came with a warranty, but you had to pay extra past the agreed-upon price because they think you might be able to use your car in a crime? etc.
I see a new movie similar to Swordfish coming up. Of course, it would be in an "Open" format and free for everyone.
This isn't java, this isn't ActiveX. This isn't obscure or anything. This is a common deal. Its one of the most fundamental things about web-browsing besides the text! The pictures. So now the pictures can bite just as hard (if not harder) than java or ActiveX things. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves. Letting this kind of bug slip past them. I bet there's a buffer overflow or critical exploit in Notepad or Minesweeper that would compromise networks and serve the hacker free pizza if you looked at 'infected' text.