A couple of hundred americans get sued. Does Kazaa fold and stops piracy? No. All that happens is that the majority of file sharers will be non-US where the RIAA cant touch them. And if they wanted to persue them, its still going to be a couple of years before they can buy...er...pass the laws there to do so.
Yeah I used to post there, dont anymore. The admins were pretty full of themselves. And hated anyone who stole their lime light. Pity, I liked the place. Might go back when the admins all leave.
Other than the quick glance and then immediate forgetting does actually take any real notice of them? Even computer illiterates learn quickly to ignore flashing ads.
And actually this hijacking of ads should be encouraged! IF the same ads are repeated over and over again you get used to them quicker and ignore them quicker.
In the 9 or so years being online I can only recall clicking intentionally on a banner ad once.
So a couple of american shareers lose their life savings and their first borns. However they cant touch any foreign sharers. The result of the actions is that there will be more foreign 'sharers' than US ones.
So the only thing that will happen is that it will take US ppl longer to download things (as the sharer would be farther away than usual).
If you knew that your world is going to be destroyed in 400 years time (and the destroyers didnt know) wouldnt you plan things out more instead of blindly sending a measely first wave assault test? You deserve total destruction for being that fucking stupid. Christ, build up a massive force over 50+ years and then attack them en masse.
And yay, the first photon torpedo. Is there fucking nothing Archer & Co doesnt use for the first time seen in the other series?
I dunno, PURE communism would probably work. Unfortunately factors such as human greed and need for power and control bought down its downfall. And its these same factors that are affecting the capitalist model too. How many more corporate scandels, restricting of consumer rights and laws will it take until capitalism becomes 'fauly'?
Wasnt the Federation in Star trek a communistic state? If so, you see how communism can work, if you make everyone on earth equal and provide everything for them for free. But that aint going to happen any time soon. Unfortunately.
I propose we keep the earth spinning at a constant rate by detonating thousands of nukes at certain places once every four years. This will produce a Catherine Wheel effect and the earth will speed back to its original spin rate.
I am going to patent this idea but I fear itll be 500 years before I get it processed.
It used to be brilliant. But then it got greedy and started to charge too much for increasingly very little. I can remember getting a 3000 point Blood Angel army for about £100 in 1994-5.What does it cost nowadays for a single 'character' miniture? £10?
And on the computer gaming front, they would make a killing if they released a half decent FPS or RTS. Instead they fear that it would harm sales of the table top games. And so no game will ever be released and they clamp down on ANY attempt to make a mod or an actual computer game. Anyone play Rites of War? HOW SHIT WAS THAT?
you'd have to know the structure of the gas cloud down to its minute detail? How in hell do you find out that? For instance how do you calculate the thickness of the gas cloud between the earth and this quasar its supposedly magnifying in on? As the thickness of the clous would affect the radio waves of the quasar more than a thinner gas cloud. Whats the yardstick to measure the gas cloud?
Thinking about it more, why dont they simply use the random electrical noise level for the random number? And isnt there a limited range of 'random' noise that can occur?
"At its heart is an advanced Random Number Generator (RNG) that uses random electrical noise on the chip to securely produce random number values"
If you keep inputting the same electrical signals (thus the same paths are taken) can you deduce the algorithm and thus crack the encryption scheme it supplies?
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And every fucker who wrote saying they loved the piece of shit, over-priced gun, are declaring themselves as virgins.
PC Halo will not be as fun as Half Life 2.
Its one year too late already.
some hax0r figures out how to send his own messages to the dolls?
Little boy: I want to go see Mickey Mouse!
Doll: MICKEY MOUSE IS A FAG!
Is this where they got the name?
So Im looking at a couple of thousand life sentences for playing Counterstrike?
And he protested against Sony for not making his last album sell a million billion trillion copies.
And he said it was because he was black.
A couple of hundred americans get sued. Does Kazaa fold and stops piracy? No.
All that happens is that the majority of file sharers will be non-US where the RIAA cant touch them.
And if they wanted to persue them, its still going to be a couple of years before they can buy...er...pass the laws there to do so.
Next youll tell me that hunting rats,hitting them twenty times with blasters, and running for twenty minutes at a time is Star Wars!
Yeah I used to post there, dont anymore. The admins were pretty full of themselves. And hated anyone who stole their lime light. Pity, I liked the place. Might go back when the admins all leave.
I can see them trying to blame poor tour sales of a shitty band on piracy.
Even computer illiterates learn quickly to ignore flashing ads.
And actually this hijacking of ads should be encouraged! IF the same ads are repeated over and over again you get used to them quicker and ignore them quicker.
In the 9 or so years being online I can only recall clicking intentionally on a banner ad once.
Futurama is aimed for adults. How could a child get the jokes about 1980/90 computing (10 SIN 20 GOTO HELL).
So a couple of american shareers lose their life savings and their first borns.
However they cant touch any foreign sharers. The result of the actions is that there will be more foreign 'sharers' than US ones.
So the only thing that will happen is that it will take US ppl longer to download things (as the sharer would be farther away than usual).
So stop saying its the end of the fucking world.
Did it when Napster went legit.
Same with AudioGalaxy.
BitTorrent or Soulseek anyone?
Christ, build up a massive force over 50+ years and then attack them en masse.
And yay, the first photon torpedo. Is there fucking nothing Archer & Co doesnt use for the first time seen in the other series?
I dunno, PURE communism would probably work. Unfortunately factors such as human greed and need for power and control bought down its downfall.
And its these same factors that are affecting the capitalist model too. How many more corporate scandels, restricting of consumer rights and laws will it take until capitalism becomes 'fauly'?
Wasnt the Federation in Star trek a communistic state? If so, you see how communism can work, if you make everyone on earth equal and provide everything for them for free. But that aint going to happen any time soon. Unfortunately.
And BT still stick broadband advertisments through the door even though they dont offer it anywhere within 70 mile of here.
Dont be stupid.
I propose we keep the earth spinning at a constant rate by detonating thousands of nukes at certain places once every four years. This will produce a Catherine Wheel effect and the earth will speed back to its original spin rate.
I am going to patent this idea but I fear itll be 500 years before I get it processed.
And on the computer gaming front, they would make a killing if they released a half decent FPS or RTS. Instead they fear that it would harm sales of the table top games. And so no game will ever be released and they clamp down on ANY attempt to make a mod or an actual computer game. Anyone play Rites of War? HOW SHIT WAS THAT?
you'd have to know the structure of the gas cloud down to its minute detail? How in hell do you find out that?
For instance how do you calculate the thickness of the gas cloud between the earth and this quasar its supposedly magnifying in on? As the thickness of the clous would affect the radio waves of the quasar more than a thinner gas cloud. Whats the yardstick to measure the gas cloud?
I read that only like 5% of a static TV screen is the remenants of the big bang.
Thinking about it more, why dont they simply use the random electrical noise level for the random number?
And isnt there a limited range of 'random' noise that can occur?
"At its heart is an advanced Random Number Generator (RNG) that uses random electrical noise on the chip to securely produce random number values" If you keep inputting the same electrical signals (thus the same paths are taken) can you deduce the algorithm and thus crack the encryption scheme it supplies?