Agreed. When I went to Eastern Michigan, all you had to do was register your name, dorm address, and student number automatically. This entered you into their database and then you were granted an IP lease. Whole thing was automated and did not install any spyware crap (and IMO anything that checks your system for crap like this is spyware). If problems arose they just checked the database and, since the IP was only ever given to you, they could shut it off and contact you.
You might also consider making a Windows LiveDVD with their crappy software on it. That way you can boot with it, do their moronic check, and then reboot into your real Windows installation for work.
Another avenue you have too is to contact Merit.Net which, last I knew, had a life-time contract to provide Michigan's universities with internet access and they have to abide by Merit's policies.
Bottom line though is CMU is probably not the place for you. I've met a lot of people who started out there and left ASAP for State, UMich, and even EMU. The saying "Mt. Pleasant - Neither a mountain nor is it pleasant" is quite apt.
Blockbuster cancelled my account because of too many issues involved with shipping. Those issues stemmed from the fact they have illiterate morons working in their shipping department who apparently cannot read numbers 1-9 correctly.
Yes you can. It's the principal that reproduction inherently cannot be the original production. Copying kiddie porn to a CD from a hard drive is worlds away from photographing/videotaping under-aged kids having sex with adults.
As it has been pointed out elsewhere, copying Metalica MP3's to CD does not make me Metalica for that process. Copying Star Trek Episodes to DVD does not make me Patrick Stewart/Avery Brooks/etc.
I guess your literacy skills failed you when I said that the kiddie porn issue was moot. It could be kiddie porn, MP3s, TV Episodes, or Windows on that CD. No matter what the contents were, he did not generate them from scratch therefore he did not produce the content. In order for this guy to have produced the content, he would have had to facilitate its creation. He merely transferred the medium upon which it was stored.
Yes, there *is* a differnce even though you chose not to see it. Remove the kiddie porn because in the context of this discussion it is moot.
Drugs laws already make this distinction. Because if he burned the CD for his own use, the drug law equivilent is "Possession". If he burned the 500 or whatever number, he could be charged with "Possession with intent to distribute".
If we followed your logic, then the person who has one or two marijuana plants for their own use can be charged with Possession with intent to distribute when clearly one or otwo plants does not allow for that.
Simply burning the CD is not producing the content. It is transferring between media.
If the outage was every other day or something, I could see a mass migration but when you've built up a blog/livejournal/etc. you cannot just pack it up and move it most of the time so you just stay an deal. Plus there is the social networking factor involved as well.
Plus it is not like users are getting shafted. LiveJournal has had problems come up once in a while and they compensate thier users for it with things like an extra month of service free and stuff like that.
Outages happen and it are a fact of life on the Internet.
That's not their fault though. It is the fault of consumers because they respond to the ads.
People like me are a minority. The more intrusive an ad is, the less I will respond to it. If it gets spammed to my mailbox, I won't order the product (as if even 10% of the spam I get is something I might actually need/want). They plaster me with paper ads, I skip them too.
Consumers drive advertising. If some new form of advertising even makes $1 on profit, they will do it.
We have already been through that with the gun industry lawsuits that failed because of people making the stupid assumption that Smith & Wesson made Gun #102546 and some how clairvoyantly knew Johnny B. Amurderer was going to by gun #102546 and kill someone with it.
Some might argue the tobacco lawsuits fall into this as well. But the only reason the tobacco ones have stuck is because they knowingly market a product that is harmful and has no other purpose.
Exactly. Pedophiles are not going to just go away and cease to exist. Even with people like Perverted-Justice it will never fully go away. It seems like most parents what everyone else to raise and protect their kids from teachers to Yahoo.
Even if parents allowed their children to chat on yahoo, it is not that hard to set up a limited account in Windows that prevents them from doing it when they are not there. Plus all the spy software that gets marketed for cheating spouses would work wonders here.
It's just that dreaded e-word people fear. Effort. Parenting is not all baby showers and cheery holidays.
Hehehehe. Considering CNN.Com barely changes below the headline stories, their poll questions are always trite and pointless. Plus they tend to latch onto the sensational stories like how on CNN we had to have breaking news everytime the GA runaway bride sneezed and MSNBC/FNC had already moved on. Well, I assume FNC did but I gave them a Death-by-TiVo so I wouldn't know.
So if you install a P2P app and without your knowledge/consent it goes ahead and searches your hard drive and spots your MP3 collection that you created from ripping your CDs. You only intended to share "c:\downloads" but now "c:\MP3s\" is shared too.
So if this was a stupid ruling, then you are saying you should be prosecuted/sued because your MP3 collection was shared by the program.
No, it does make sense. If you place an order with BestBuy.Com, the system takes care of everything. The only human(s) they have to pay is whoever goes and grabs the item from the store/storage and brings it up and verifies purchase. At most the whole process would take about 5-10 minutes.
A shopper at the store has to deal with sales floor staff, etc. For example it is much cheaper for them in terms of operating costs to sell a computer to an online shopper than it is to sell that identicle machine to an in-store shopper. The in-store shopper might eat up 20-30 minutes of the sales person's time, then they have to go wait in line at the cashier lanes, etc.
These XML files will not replace.DOC,.XLS,.PPT, and.MDB. It will merely augment them for purposes of moving back and forth between other applications. The fact MS will have them as the default format smells of ass kissing.
But really they serve no purpose other than that because who is going to prep a business presentation to be shown in PowerPoint using an archive file with everything in it as opposed to using a single.PPT file with everything embedded in it?
If your files are created in an MS Office app and are destined to be used/printed on an MS Office app, then these new formats would be pointless anyways. I just hope MS allows you to change the default back to the proprietary formats.
A similar model for this already exists within Alias' Maya software with its.mA (Maya ASCII) and.mB (Maya Binary) formats.
Anyone with half a brain ought to have recognized this happens by now. Someone mentioned that it should be inverse, that initial sales are cheaper and loyal customers get higher prices. What crack were they smoking? Say a customer buys a pack of DVD-R's from Site X and pays $29.99 for a spindle of 50 and the store gets a $10 profit from it. He likes the store, selection, etc. so he decides to buy them from there exclusively. So now he keeps buying them but Site X only charges him $24.99 cutting their profit in half in hopes of enticing more purchases from him either in DVD-R's and/or in other products. Now the model has shifted from one of maximizing profit through mark-up to maximizing profit on volume as it is better to get $5 from 100 loyal customers each because in order to get the same profit, you would have to lure in 50 new customers.
Brick-n-Mortar stores with an online presence will charge differently too. In fact, anyone who shops at Best Buy and 'pre-shops' on their website should easily have seen this because they offer better prices on the website than they do in the stores. I got caught by this when I bought some DVD-R's that were $19.99 on the site, but $39.99 in the store. I asked about the price discrepency and the cashier said that the website was no longer an online representation of the brick-n-mortar stores, but now competes with them. Of course Best Buy is not so dumb as to make you buy something from the site and have it shipped, you can get the price on the website by selecting Store Pickup as your shipping option.
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Agreed. When I went to Eastern Michigan, all you had to do was register your name, dorm address, and student number automatically. This entered you into their database and then you were granted an IP lease. Whole thing was automated and did not install any spyware crap (and IMO anything that checks your system for crap like this is spyware). If problems arose they just checked the database and, since the IP was only ever given to you, they could shut it off and contact you.
You might also consider making a Windows LiveDVD with their crappy software on it. That way you can boot with it, do their moronic check, and then reboot into your real Windows installation for work.
Another avenue you have too is to contact Merit.Net which, last I knew, had a life-time contract to provide Michigan's universities with internet access and they have to abide by Merit's policies.
Bottom line though is CMU is probably not the place for you. I've met a lot of people who started out there and left ASAP for State, UMich, and even EMU. The saying "Mt. Pleasant - Neither a mountain nor is it pleasant" is quite apt.
Blockbuster cancelled my account because of too many issues involved with shipping. Those issues stemmed from the fact they have illiterate morons working in their shipping department who apparently cannot read numbers 1-9 correctly.
Yes you can. It's the principal that reproduction inherently cannot be the original production. Copying kiddie porn to a CD from a hard drive is worlds away from photographing/videotaping under-aged kids having sex with adults.
As it has been pointed out elsewhere, copying Metalica MP3's to CD does not make me Metalica for that process. Copying Star Trek Episodes to DVD does not make me Patrick Stewart/Avery Brooks/etc.
I guess your literacy skills failed you when I said that the kiddie porn issue was moot. It could be kiddie porn, MP3s, TV Episodes, or Windows on that CD. No matter what the contents were, he did not generate them from scratch therefore he did not produce the content. In order for this guy to have produced the content, he would have had to facilitate its creation. He merely transferred the medium upon which it was stored.
Yes, there *is* a differnce even though you chose not to see it. Remove the kiddie porn because in the context of this discussion it is moot.
Drugs laws already make this distinction. Because if he burned the CD for his own use, the drug law equivilent is "Possession". If he burned the 500 or whatever number, he could be charged with "Possession with intent to distribute".
If we followed your logic, then the person who has one or two marijuana plants for their own use can be charged with Possession with intent to distribute when clearly one or otwo plants does not allow for that.
Simply burning the CD is not producing the content. It is transferring between media.
It's not about whether or not the user is "an idiot" but rather if the system allows it.
If the outage was every other day or something, I could see a mass migration but when you've built up a blog/livejournal/etc. you cannot just pack it up and move it most of the time so you just stay an deal. Plus there is the social networking factor involved as well.
Plus it is not like users are getting shafted. LiveJournal has had problems come up once in a while and they compensate thier users for it with things like an extra month of service free and stuff like that.
Outages happen and it are a fact of life on the Internet.
That's not their fault though. It is the fault of consumers because they respond to the ads.
People like me are a minority. The more intrusive an ad is, the less I will respond to it. If it gets spammed to my mailbox, I won't order the product (as if even 10% of the spam I get is something I might actually need/want). They plaster me with paper ads, I skip them too.
Consumers drive advertising. If some new form of advertising even makes $1 on profit, they will do it.
Amen. Those bots did not last more than 5 seconds.
We have already been through that with the gun industry lawsuits that failed because of people making the stupid assumption that Smith & Wesson made Gun #102546 and some how clairvoyantly knew Johnny B. Amurderer was going to by gun #102546 and kill someone with it.
Some might argue the tobacco lawsuits fall into this as well. But the only reason the tobacco ones have stuck is because they knowingly market a product that is harmful and has no other purpose.
Exactly. Pedophiles are not going to just go away and cease to exist. Even with people like Perverted-Justice it will never fully go away. It seems like most parents what everyone else to raise and protect their kids from teachers to Yahoo.
Even if parents allowed their children to chat on yahoo, it is not that hard to set up a limited account in Windows that prevents them from doing it when they are not there. Plus all the spy software that gets marketed for cheating spouses would work wonders here.
It's just that dreaded e-word people fear. Effort. Parenting is not all baby showers and cheery holidays.
Easy. Only Texas has that real ability. Unfortunately they seem to refuse to do so.
Hehehehe. Considering CNN.Com barely changes below the headline stories, their poll questions are always trite and pointless. Plus they tend to latch onto the sensational stories like how on CNN we had to have breaking news everytime the GA runaway bride sneezed and MSNBC/FNC had already moved on. Well, I assume FNC did but I gave them a Death-by-TiVo so I wouldn't know.
CNN doing worthwhile reporting? What crack have you been smoking?
Jealousy does not become you sweetie.
That's why you get a Dell with CompleteCare. You could practically take a piss on that thing and they'll fix it then.
Apple has been assimilated by the Intel collective. Resistance was futile :).
Yeah. But they'd be a better analagy than say a Borg Cube since that would fit Intel more.
And you gotta love the Might Morphin' Power Changelings
Aren't you forgetting AMD's Jem'Hadar soldiers too?
So if you install a P2P app and without your knowledge/consent it goes ahead and searches your hard drive and spots your MP3 collection that you created from ripping your CDs. You only intended to share "c:\downloads" but now "c:\MP3s\" is shared too.
So if this was a stupid ruling, then you are saying you should be prosecuted/sued because your MP3 collection was shared by the program.
No, it does make sense. If you place an order with BestBuy.Com, the system takes care of everything. The only human(s) they have to pay is whoever goes and grabs the item from the store/storage and brings it up and verifies purchase. At most the whole process would take about 5-10 minutes.
A shopper at the store has to deal with sales floor staff, etc. For example it is much cheaper for them in terms of operating costs to sell a computer to an online shopper than it is to sell that identicle machine to an in-store shopper. The in-store shopper might eat up 20-30 minutes of the sales person's time, then they have to go wait in line at the cashier lanes, etc.
These XML files will not replace .DOC, .XLS, .PPT, and .MDB. It will merely augment them for purposes of moving back and forth between other applications. The fact MS will have them as the default format smells of ass kissing.
.PPT file with everything embedded in it?
.mA (Maya ASCII) and .mB (Maya Binary) formats.
But really they serve no purpose other than that because who is going to prep a business presentation to be shown in PowerPoint using an archive file with everything in it as opposed to using a single
If your files are created in an MS Office app and are destined to be used/printed on an MS Office app, then these new formats would be pointless anyways. I just hope MS allows you to change the default back to the proprietary formats.
A similar model for this already exists within Alias' Maya software with its
Anyone with half a brain ought to have recognized this happens by now. Someone mentioned that it should be inverse, that initial sales are cheaper and loyal customers get higher prices. What crack were they smoking? Say a customer buys a pack of DVD-R's from Site X and pays $29.99 for a spindle of 50 and the store gets a $10 profit from it. He likes the store, selection, etc. so he decides to buy them from there exclusively. So now he keeps buying them but Site X only charges him $24.99 cutting their profit in half in hopes of enticing more purchases from him either in DVD-R's and/or in other products. Now the model has shifted from one of maximizing profit through mark-up to maximizing profit on volume as it is better to get $5 from 100 loyal customers each because in order to get the same profit, you would have to lure in 50 new customers.
Brick-n-Mortar stores with an online presence will charge differently too. In fact, anyone who shops at Best Buy and 'pre-shops' on their website should easily have seen this because they offer better prices on the website than they do in the stores. I got caught by this when I bought some DVD-R's that were $19.99 on the site, but $39.99 in the store. I asked about the price discrepency and the cashier said that the website was no longer an online representation of the brick-n-mortar stores, but now competes with them. Of course Best Buy is not so dumb as to make you buy something from the site and have it shipped, you can get the price on the website by selecting Store Pickup as your shipping option.
Like omigawd! There cannot possibly be naive people on the Internet!
Add a dildo and the ability for it to take a sh!t for me and I'll have the perfect cell phone.
Anyone else miss the days when a phone was just a phone?