If they are able to simulate human analysis so well at this point then I suggest that botnets can be the cure. Build up a botnet (shouldn't be too hard judging from what I've read) then set it to respond to spam automatically. Let it use autogenerated Hotmail accounts to purchase penis and diet pills, mortgages, help desperate rich Nigerians, etc with bogus credit card and bank account numbers.
Eventually you could start an infinite loop with one botnet trying to sell crap to another.
I wonder how many of these legal firms are on retainer with a standing mandate from the company to "Protect our interests" with few boundaries. Now if they don't find anyone to sue or defend against they worry that they may not be seen as being worth spending so much money on so they have to justify their cost by looking for victims (sort of like parking police). So instead of just quietly guarding the company they start sending out letters like this.
I also wonder how many of these legal firms act semi-independently of the company and fail to inform them of all their activities. "Ya, we just send out an embarrassingly weak threat to a small competitor that could backfire on us. Ummmm, we're fired?"
105mph? In that case why not put a ramp ahead of the intersection and jump it. Crash problem solved! I plan on getting a copy of the General Lee if they ever implement this.
Will it lock me out for those times when I mash the keyboard after writing "lust" instead of "list" for the umpteenth time? Don't get me started on Freudian slips either.
The cooling focus is reasonable...
In case you're wondering, Asus opted for the HD 3850 GPU rather than the faster HD 3870 for reasons of power. Even with this lesser chip, our X3 test rig peaked at a whopping 296W, compared with 186W for a standard 3850 system. With an HD 3870 X2, the system exceeded 300W, and that's with just two GPUs.
I would blame golf courses before I blame Freemasons.
The best part is that many times exCEOs end up sitting on some corporate board voting for another profit milking compensation plan for a fellow CEO. Heavens forbid they reinvest that money back into the company.
I never understood the strong rejection of Lynch's effort. No movie is ever going to be a perfect reproduction of any book, it would just be a glorified narration if it was. For instance, I found Kubrick's version of Steven King's book "The Shining" to be far superior to the later TV effort to copy the book that King had always wanted. Kubrick's cutting of tangents and unnecessary details from the story made of a well paced film with an extremely strong mood. The TV mini-series just seemed to drag, granted it didn't have Jack Nicholson and it had that AWFUL fish lipped lispy kid.
The look of Lynch's movie was what I really love about it. The quasi-Victorian/WWI look and feel to it (please don't make me say "Steampunk") seemed truer to the spirit of the book than the later mini-series and its elaborate high fashion. Here was a society that had rejected high technology (thinking machines) and so had purposefully restricted itself to the industrial age. The high quality of the actors involved (José Ferrer, Jürgen Prochnow, Dean Stockwell, etc) is also impressive.
I'm seriously considering getting out of Warcraft after playing it for a few months. The gameplay is incredibly repetitive (kill X things, find Y things, go here, go there...). EVERYTHING is designed to waste your time as much as possible. Things are given drop rates so low that you have to repeat the same boring action a 100+ times to get them (and you might still not). Many, many hours are required for small incremental improvements. Farming is not entertainment, not in the least, if I wanted to do that I could get a job in a factory and at least get paid. On top of all that NOTHING you do has any permenent effect on the world around you. Everything is static. The only saving grace is that the landscape is pretty.
I agree with your comments on cheat codes. Sometimes I just want to see parts of the game or experiment with the boundaries of it. I don't have the time to sit for hours on end trying to master every aspect of a game.
Well sir, we've gotten your spit test results back and according to this your blood consists of a mixture of chocolate and caramel, and you are packed with peanuts.
I see nothing that could go wrong with this. What could a country downwind, who ends up having all the moisture wrung out of the clouds by the country upwind, possibly complain about? I'm sure they perfectly understand all of the ramifications of this. No need to worry.
My wife is the same way. She can buy that stuff, doesn't bother me. It makes her happy and is harmless so how is it different from someone who is happy when they spend money on clothes or cable TV? For some reason though I draw the line in her belief in UFOs. It must be my background in astrophysics that makes this really annoy me and I will argue this with her.
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If they are able to simulate human analysis so well at this point then I suggest that botnets can be the cure. Build up a botnet (shouldn't be too hard judging from what I've read) then set it to respond to spam automatically. Let it use autogenerated Hotmail accounts to purchase penis and diet pills, mortgages, help desperate rich Nigerians, etc with bogus credit card and bank account numbers.
Eventually you could start an infinite loop with one botnet trying to sell crap to another.
I wonder how many of these legal firms are on retainer with a standing mandate from the company to "Protect our interests" with few boundaries. Now if they don't find anyone to sue or defend against they worry that they may not be seen as being worth spending so much money on so they have to justify their cost by looking for victims (sort of like parking police). So instead of just quietly guarding the company they start sending out letters like this.
I also wonder how many of these legal firms act semi-independently of the company and fail to inform them of all their activities. "Ya, we just send out an embarrassingly weak threat to a small competitor that could backfire on us. Ummmm, we're fired?"
Does anyone see the irony in calling a large scale government information project "Byzantine"?
If you buy a knock-off you won't have access to all that great customer support that always comes from hardware vendors!
105mph? In that case why not put a ramp ahead of the intersection and jump it. Crash problem solved! I plan on getting a copy of the General Lee if they ever implement this.
Paragraphs are your friend.
Why is the United Arab Emerates nagging Vista users?
Your system needs to be restarted. Please say goodbye to the next 10 minutes of your life and anything you had open.
Will it lock me out for those times when I mash the keyboard after writing "lust" instead of "list" for the umpteenth time? Don't get me started on Freudian slips either.
28,000 lines of useful code and 10,000,000 lines of goto statements referring back to the forementioned 28,000 lines.
But it'll still take 10 minutes to timeout in Windows.
"Dude! Don't blast me dude! Dude! Ow Ow Ow!"
Come on spammers and botnet scammers, we need your l33t skills to get 1 million names entered in. Just use the ones you put in the "from" line.
I would blame golf courses before I blame Freemasons.
The best part is that many times exCEOs end up sitting on some corporate board voting for another profit milking compensation plan for a fellow CEO. Heavens forbid they reinvest that money back into the company.
...saw nothing that didn't scream fraud to anybody with more than a dozen functioning brain cells.You just answered your own question, though I would also add greed to that list.
I never understood the strong rejection of Lynch's effort. No movie is ever going to be a perfect reproduction of any book, it would just be a glorified narration if it was. For instance, I found Kubrick's version of Steven King's book "The Shining" to be far superior to the later TV effort to copy the book that King had always wanted. Kubrick's cutting of tangents and unnecessary details from the story made of a well paced film with an extremely strong mood. The TV mini-series just seemed to drag, granted it didn't have Jack Nicholson and it had that AWFUL fish lipped lispy kid.
The look of Lynch's movie was what I really love about it. The quasi-Victorian/WWI look and feel to it (please don't make me say "Steampunk") seemed truer to the spirit of the book than the later mini-series and its elaborate high fashion. Here was a society that had rejected high technology (thinking machines) and so had purposefully restricted itself to the industrial age. The high quality of the actors involved (José Ferrer, Jürgen Prochnow, Dean Stockwell, etc) is also impressive.
Combo death-ray and microscope.
What was that? Sorry, I was busy admiring my fat IT paycheck.
Just in case you tried to rig up your keyboard so it would run unattended. They wanted you to sit there.
No, but then they return them to IKEA and there is this wierd humming noise coming from inside one of the "Glützergödel" table legs.
I'm seriously considering getting out of Warcraft after playing it for a few months. The gameplay is incredibly repetitive (kill X things, find Y things, go here, go there...). EVERYTHING is designed to waste your time as much as possible. Things are given drop rates so low that you have to repeat the same boring action a 100+ times to get them (and you might still not). Many, many hours are required for small incremental improvements. Farming is not entertainment, not in the least, if I wanted to do that I could get a job in a factory and at least get paid. On top of all that NOTHING you do has any permenent effect on the world around you. Everything is static. The only saving grace is that the landscape is pretty.
I agree with your comments on cheat codes. Sometimes I just want to see parts of the game or experiment with the boundaries of it. I don't have the time to sit for hours on end trying to master every aspect of a game.
Well sir, we've gotten your spit test results back and according to this your blood consists of a mixture of chocolate and caramel, and you are packed with peanuts.
I see nothing that could go wrong with this. What could a country downwind, who ends up having all the moisture wrung out of the clouds by the country upwind, possibly complain about? I'm sure they perfectly understand all of the ramifications of this. No need to worry.
My wife is the same way. She can buy that stuff, doesn't bother me. It makes her happy and is harmless so how is it different from someone who is happy when they spend money on clothes or cable TV? For some reason though I draw the line in her belief in UFOs. It must be my background in astrophysics that makes this really annoy me and I will argue this with her.