Cause I for one WANT TO KNOW. Why can't we just block the whole country? The whole goddamn country? Just shunt the whole IP prefix off the map? Tell the routers that it's a ping flood and dump the bozos?
For every African 419 scam, I get dozens of stock, viagra and penis enlarger ads from American spammers.
The reason the 419 crap continues is because they have government that looks the other way, hold them accountable then give handouts.
And obviously those primary school children should be punished because you got some spam from some asshole in Lagos at an Internet cafe. Taking laptops away from rural children will send a message to those scammers all right.
For example, if you have tough sentences for violent robbery, it won't change the attitude of the would-be robbers, just make them more afraid, and thus less robberies are committed.
"Thus less robberies are committed", eh? How about "thus robbers are more more afraid of beinbg caught, so prepared to kill rather than leave witnesses"? Equally likely it seems to me.
but being *tough* is fine if all you care is about them being *effective*
And how is "being tough" working out in Baghdad? High probability of death for committing crimes has really made that a haven of peace and love.
"Don't download copywritten material." We're actually talking about copyrights, not copywriters (i.e. the guys who write advertisements). So I would have modded it down as "malapropism".
Then people will start removing the serial numbers....
Do it in a way that the product will be defaced and unsellable as "new" if removed. Print it under the label, inside the lid, mold it into the base, etc.
The company should just hire a P.I. to tail the lady running the ebay auctions.
Put a serial number on every container of cosmetics. They can then buy one from the eBayer and know exactly who sold it to her. Additional cost a few cents, if that, per package.
14K modem in 1991, I'm impressed - how much did it cost?
Well, memory is fallible. I've got copies of Internet emails back to 1995, and used a BBS for a year or so before then. I think my first 14k external modem cost about US$150.
Whay do you need to "install" anything? This isn't 1991, when you had to get a floppy with Trumpet Winsock to log on to your ISP via a 14k modem. Isn't it PPPoE, built into all modern OS? Excuse my ignorance if it's something more esoteric. If TFA actually gave any hard information I might have been able to work that out.
The biggest problem with Lost is waiting for new episodes. It seems like it is moving slow because the show takes so many lengthy breaks.
I'm in Hong Kong. We get Lost and such series here usually several months after the US. But the advantage is, they run them straight through one per week, even for series cancelled midseason in the US. If I care about a series I have to take care to avoid spoilers. Of course, the DVDs are available here too, and downloads, but I rarely indulge in that unless I happen to miss a broadcast.
I watched the first two series, and there really was some great stuff there. But it seems to be getting more incoherent and ad hoc. I would be amazed if they can get it to a conclusion that doesn't have people tearing their hair out. I think they've just got too many balls in the air, while painting themselves in a corner, to terribly mix metaphors.
A multi-year arc is pretty damn hard to pull off. Hardly anyone has ever tried, and fewer have succeeded. With the network breathing down your neck to maximise ratings, the temptation is always to go for reveals and cliffhangers, even if they are undermining your conclusion a year or more later. Babylon 5 is the classic example, and that only just scraped in. It managed to keep on track because of having one guiding force, Straczynski, who wrote most of the episodes. Which meant some mediocre dialogue, but that's another angle.
For a start: the story actually goes somewhere in Lost. They actually did some story writing ahead of time instead of just tossing out some meaningless obscure crap every now and then. The suspense in Lost means something because you know it's eventually going to be dealt with
My god, you're trusting. Did you ever watch Alias, JJ Abrams' previous series? It had a lot of mysterious backstory, involving the magical Rambaldi devices and several -- I lost count -- rival secret spy organisations, and everybody related to and alternately saving or betraying each other. It ended in a disappointing, confused pile of nonsense worse than the X-Files finale.
If Abrams has an ending planned, it's going to use a lot of "it was just a dream/illusion" etc, to paper over the cracks.
how would this backfire if the book is going to sell millions anyway?
If the publisher authorised someone to put copies of the book, no matter how degraded, freely available on the Inernet, it would be difficult for take anyone who pirated their books to court. Though legally, their copyright is not diminished by doing this, any calculation of damages and punishment for offenders will be severely reduced. NO one with the authority to do this would do it.
Besides, the publicity level is already saturated. Every news outlet in the world has at least one Potter story every day now.
Same as on the Ringworld: rockets attached to the outside to push it. Or if you're at the level of tech to build a solid Dyson sphere, you probably have gravity control. Slightly less magical, you could control the sun magnetically and make it flare more on one side, producing more solar wind which would push the sphere away on that side.
there is only one issue with that, that you might have inserted features in the file not supported under the old format. I'm sure word could warn you about that though, but that still requires idiots to read whats in front of them
Every time I do a "save as" in Word to another format it warns me that "Some features may not be supported" in the new format. EVERY TIME. It never specifies which "features", and in most cases I'm using plain text, which is about as featureless as it's possible to be. So this warning is essentially FUD, an attempt to dissuade you from using anything except the latest version of DOC.
The BBC said they are going to look at other platforms later.
"Later" as in at least two years. By then the infrastructure for MS DRM will be all pervasive and impossible to supplant. MS is being give a TWO YEAR (at least) monopoly in which it can use to make it impossible to change, by offering services ever more tightly intertwined with Windows. Any alternative will be in the position that competing office suites are now: it matters nothing that the alternatives are cheaper, better, more stable, the momentum of installed software and developers (developers, developers...) means the alternatives are doomed to never have a chance. All software to support this service will come out first in a Windows version, alternatives may be promised and delivered months or years later, if ever.
the value of that content would likely be greatly diminished if people in other countries can download it from the BBC before their local networks can get access to show it.
Don't tell anyone, but we already do. Check, for instance, how many non-British people are posting on Doctor Who discussion forums the day after the UK broadcast.
I just want to be sure that it's cool with you to duplicate this important story before I comment. And how lucky that I can make the same comments on the story twice, just in case they missed the first one!
the FBI did, in fact, arrest a whole bunch of them.
Actually, I mis-remembered, I confused that arrest and the mentioned FBI investigation of another photographer mentioned later.
You abused me for not reading your article. I had, it did not support your argument. It mentions one (1) person arrested in an unrelated case twelve years ago. Not "a whole bunch". And your examples of CP are, if not entirely innocent, nothing to get excited about, in any sense of the word. So I conclude with my original suspicion confirmed, that you have a feud with TPB and are just throwing any mud at it that you can find, and exaggerating and plain making stuff up to make them look bad.
In yet other words that might make this even clearer, in the case of important topics such as this, it might be beneficial to not gripe about the "slackness of the editors", as it works out in our favor to have more discussion about the issue.
No, as MY point was, the dupes aren't related to importance. They're random.
Case in point, I didn't have a chance to engage in discussion on the last entry on the subject since I was busy with other things at the time, but had I returned to the topic later the discussion would have been dead.
Yesterday's topic is still live, you can post in it for at least a week.
But this is not a deliberate revisiting of a story. It's just due to the slackness of the editors. You're just as likely to see a repeat of some stupid joke non-story as something inmportant.
Since when does posting twice about a story invalidate the story? There's plenty to see here.
So if a story is "valid" we should just keep repeating it every day? So if a story is "valid" we should just keep repeating it every day? So if a story is "valid" we should just keep repeating it every day?
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For every African 419 scam, I get dozens of stock, viagra and penis enlarger ads from American spammers.
And obviously those primary school children should be punished because you got some spam from some asshole in Lagos at an Internet cafe. Taking laptops away from rural children will send a message to those scammers all right.
"Thus less robberies are committed", eh? How about "thus robbers are more more afraid of beinbg caught, so prepared to kill rather than leave witnesses"? Equally likely it seems to me. but being *tough* is fine if all you care is about them being *effective*
And how is "being tough" working out in Baghdad? High probability of death for committing crimes has really made that a haven of peace and love.
"Don't download copywritten material." We're actually talking about copyrights, not copywriters (i.e. the guys who write advertisements). So I would have modded it down as "malapropism".
How many metres per watt do you get?
Is there a single person who might be reading a Nasa story who needed that "fact" explained?
Do it in a way that the product will be defaced and unsellable as "new" if removed. Print it under the label, inside the lid, mold it into the base, etc.
Put a serial number on every container of cosmetics. They can then buy one from the eBayer and know exactly who sold it to her. Additional cost a few cents, if that, per package.
Well, memory is fallible. I've got copies of Internet emails back to 1995, and used a BBS for a year or so before then. I think my first 14k external modem cost about US$150.
Whay do you need to "install" anything? This isn't 1991, when you had to get a floppy with Trumpet Winsock to log on to your ISP via a 14k modem. Isn't it PPPoE, built into all modern OS? Excuse my ignorance if it's something more esoteric. If TFA actually gave any hard information I might have been able to work that out.
I'm in Hong Kong. We get Lost and such series here usually several months after the US. But the advantage is, they run them straight through one per week, even for series cancelled midseason in the US. If I care about a series I have to take care to avoid spoilers. Of course, the DVDs are available here too, and downloads, but I rarely indulge in that unless I happen to miss a broadcast.
A multi-year arc is pretty damn hard to pull off. Hardly anyone has ever tried, and fewer have succeeded. With the network breathing down your neck to maximise ratings, the temptation is always to go for reveals and cliffhangers, even if they are undermining your conclusion a year or more later. Babylon 5 is the classic example, and that only just scraped in. It managed to keep on track because of having one guiding force, Straczynski, who wrote most of the episodes. Which meant some mediocre dialogue, but that's another angle.
My god, you're trusting. Did you ever watch Alias, JJ Abrams' previous series? It had a lot of mysterious backstory, involving the magical Rambaldi devices and several -- I lost count -- rival secret spy organisations, and everybody related to and alternately saving or betraying each other. It ended in a disappointing, confused pile of nonsense worse than the X-Files finale.
If Abrams has an ending planned, it's going to use a lot of "it was just a dream/illusion" etc, to paper over the cracks.
If the publisher authorised someone to put copies of the book, no matter how degraded, freely available on the Inernet, it would be difficult for take anyone who pirated their books to court. Though legally, their copyright is not diminished by doing this, any calculation of damages and punishment for offenders will be severely reduced. NO one with the authority to do this would do it.
Besides, the publicity level is already saturated. Every news outlet in the world has at least one Potter story every day now.
Same as on the Ringworld: rockets attached to the outside to push it. Or if you're at the level of tech to build a solid Dyson sphere, you probably have gravity control. Slightly less magical, you could control the sun magnetically and make it flare more on one side, producing more solar wind which would push the sphere away on that side.
Every time I do a "save as" in Word to another format it warns me that "Some features may not be supported" in the new format. EVERY TIME. It never specifies which "features", and in most cases I'm using plain text, which is about as featureless as it's possible to be. So this warning is essentially FUD, an attempt to dissuade you from using anything except the latest version of DOC.
"Later" as in at least two years. By then the infrastructure for MS DRM will be all pervasive and impossible to supplant. MS is being give a TWO YEAR (at least) monopoly in which it can use to make it impossible to change, by offering services ever more tightly intertwined with Windows. Any alternative will be in the position that competing office suites are now: it matters nothing that the alternatives are cheaper, better, more stable, the momentum of installed software and developers (developers, developers...) means the alternatives are doomed to never have a chance. All software to support this service will come out first in a Windows version, alternatives may be promised and delivered months or years later, if ever.
WTF?
Don't tell anyone, but we already do. Check, for instance, how many non-British people are posting on Doctor Who discussion forums the day after the UK broadcast.
Do you have a fucking problem with
BBC Trust Will Hear iPlayer Openness Complaints
and BBC Trust to Meet With OSC Over iPlayer?
I just want to be sure that it's cool with you to duplicate this important story before I comment. And how lucky that I can make the same comments on the story twice, just in case they missed the first one!
And don't tell me that it's an "update" because they both source the same Register story.
Actually, I mis-remembered, I confused that arrest and the mentioned FBI investigation of another photographer mentioned later.
You abused me for not reading your article. I had, it did not support your argument. It mentions one (1) person arrested in an unrelated case twelve years ago. Not "a whole bunch". And your examples of CP are, if not entirely innocent, nothing to get excited about, in any sense of the word. So I conclude with my original suspicion confirmed, that you have a feud with TPB and are just throwing any mud at it that you can find, and exaggerating and plain making stuff up to make them look bad.
Because "the point" is not defined by you?
In yet other words that might make this even clearer, in the case of important topics such as this, it might be beneficial to not gripe about the "slackness of the editors", as it works out in our favor to have more discussion about the issue.
No, as MY point was, the dupes aren't related to importance. They're random.
Yesterday's topic is still live, you can post in it for at least a week.
But this is not a deliberate revisiting of a story. It's just due to the slackness of the editors. You're just as likely to see a repeat of some stupid joke non-story as something inmportant.
So if a story is "valid" we should just keep repeating it every day? So if a story is "valid" we should just keep repeating it every day? So if a story is "valid" we should just keep repeating it every day?