Perhaps it's 'too expensive' to do it Right. But that doesn't explain why ther have been no attempts at animating his stories. It's no more expensive to draw things faithfully to the book than any other way.
Friday, The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, Stranger In A Strange Land, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Citizen of the Galaxy and Methuselah's Children are all fantastic...
Yes, I beleive they are, too.
I'm quit esuprised that noone's ever bases a movie on one of those, particularly 'Mistress'. Or even just an anime.
Attach your machine to a generator. Poof, you aren't paying electric billsanymore. In face, in many states, you are MAKING money for all the electricity you pu back into the grid.
Use that money to buy a cheap alectric car. Put your machine in it and take out (sell) the batteries. Sell the car to someone.
That person recommends you to their friends. COnvert their electric cars to run off your machine.
OK, you can ask the "if a tree falls in a forest..." questions if you want: if you're never going to meet this person again, and they're never going to find out, does it really matter? I don't know. But that sort of abstract situation isn't reality. There's nothing at all difficult about the kind of trick Consumerist pulled. If you're doing this stuff routinely, you're taking a risk someone will find out.
All the tech has to do is hook the drive up as a slave to another PC, and scan for pix that way. There is no way software (that's not running) on the customer PC can detect that.
Now- since we're back to the question: "if a tree falls in a forest..." questions if you want: if you're never going to meet this person again, and they're never going to find out, does it really matter?
He said he was prepping the drive for a re-format, that generally indicates backing up all private data, however well-hidden it may be (programs aren't always nice, they don't all store everything in the Documents and Settings folder, so you have a responsibility to go looking for any data the customer may want saved.
He didn't SAY he was backing stuff up, he just said he was "preparing to format a hard drive returned to us by someone". It was a "RETURNED" drive. There was NO need to look thru the files on it. Format it. Period.
he was probably using windows explorer
Maybe. Maybe not.
It displays thumbnails (or a slideshow) of folders containing only images by default.
Maybe. unless the settings were changed. Like, maybe by a guy who didn't want honking big thumbnails of his porn popping up when ever he opened the folder,
a 1:12 ratio is hardly damning of the whole organization
As someone else pointed out above, if you had your credit card number 'stolen' 1/12 of the time you went to a particular store, would you still think it no big deal??
You don't need anyone to 'take you seriously' in order to make money.
I can think of a ton of ways to make money without anyone even knowing you are using a 'perpetual motion machine'.
Put it in an electric car. Sure, someone will eventually notice that you never actually have to recharge the (nonexistant) batteries, but you can add a fake recharging cord for that.
Buy/start a company that sells generators. This is riskier, because people WILL notice they never have to fuel the genny.
Buy an old power station, and gut it. Set up your machines, and sell electricity.
If I watch a TV show live, It's okay. (Even if I don't watch the commercials.) If I record a TV show with a VCR and watch it later, It's okay. If I record a TV show on a DVR and watch it later, It's okay. If I have a friend record a TV show (VCR or DVR) and give me the recording so I can watch it later, It's okay. BUT... If my 'friend' is an unknown person sharing a bittorrent, it's NOT okay?
But the idea that you can detect shoplifters by seeing what they are watching is still extremely useful.
Unfortunately, it's complete BS. Any 'good' shoplifter will KNOW you are looking for people who are watching the employees, and will deliberately NOT look at you. Sure, you'll catch a few kids and amateurs, but the 'pros' will breeze right by you.
An expert told me, "You can tell the shoplifters because they are watching you, not their shopping." Now does everyone that looks at the night manager a shoplifter? Of course not, and only a fool would believe it, and only a bigger fool would suggest it.
Then your "expert" was a big fool. How can "shoplifters watch the employees" WITHOUT looking at them? Looking at them is a prerqeuisite for 'watching' them. Wher eis the line drawn between 'looking' and 'watching'??
And you think that the FBI gets off on following up on completely useless tips?
Well, you see, there is this thing called 'Data Mining'. For it to work best, the database that is 'mined' needs to have as much data as possible. So, while the FBI may not "get off" of following up every tip, they may very well 'get off' by entering every tip into a huge database.
Or maybe you think they can't tell the difference between suspicious and ordinary, even though you seem to have no trouble?
I posted one such example in the post you replied to. (Okay, it was the DEA, not the FBI. DO you REALLY think they are that different?)
Back in 1991, the Pittsburgh Press did a survey of reasons for DEA agents taking people's money when they come off of airplanes. It was classic profiling:
Agents in Illinois are told its suspicious if their subjects are among the first people off a plane, because it shows they're in a hurry. In Michigan, the DEA says that being the last off a plane is suspicious because the subject is trying to appear unconcerned. And in Ohio, agents are told suspicion should surface when suspects deplane in the middle of a group because they may be trying to lose themselves in the crowd.
What freedom is taken away by the FBI asking people to watch out for certain behaviors
Nothing.
IF the behaviours are not unreasonable vague.
The list of behaviours mentioned here IS unreasonably vague.
It creates a surveilance society. People become afraid to do or say anything because their neighbors might report them for 'suspicious activity'. "I tell you, officer, they left town last week, and didn't tell everyone about their travel plans." "The father leaves for work WAY to early, and gets home late sometimes..." "They bought a new car last week. Where'd they get the cash? Must be terrorists..."
the FBI wants people to report suspicious activity. Wow!! I'm outraged.
Since when is having a bit of cash ("Unexplained affluence") a suspicious activity? Since when is failign to bore people with every detail of your vacation ("failing to report overseas travel,") a suspicious activity? Since when is curiosity ("showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope") a suspicious activity? Since when is working a night job ("keeping unusual work hours") a suspicious activity? etc. etc.
The wages of fruit pickers could probably double without totally destroying our economy
Picking costs about 5% of the total cost of fruit. That means out of the $1.00 you spend for an apple, 5 cents goes to the pickers. This means that the pickers could be payed $20.00 per hour instead of $2.00, and the end price would only go up 45%. (Do the math: 95cents + 5 cents= $1. Multiple 5 cents by 10 = 50 cents. 95cents + 50cents = $1.45, a 45% increase from the original dollar)
I'm sure they could get Americans to pick fruit for $20.00 per hour. And the price of fruit would nowhere near 'double', as some doomsayers contend.
And it would probably take mere minutes for an expert to expose the fake.
The point is that there IS no way to 'expose' it as fake. (Assuming it was done half-way decently.) It's a PRINTOUT of a SCREENSHOT. I can hit PrintScreen, save in MSPaint, and copy/paste the individual IP digits in the.bmp to show ANYTHING I WANT.
The ONLY ways they can dispute the screen shot is to:
1) Try to discredit ME, and by that, discredit the evidence I present (ie: the 'screenshot'). or 2) Provide logs from their proxy server showing the connections in the screen shot never happened. The problem with this is they will be presenting (you guessed it...) a PRINTOUT of a trivial-to-change text file.
These are the same issues that 'pirates' face trying to fight the RIAA. It's hard for a 'dirty music stealin' pirate' to discredit the RIAA, and most people don't keep adequite logs (and since they are trivial to forge, they wouldn't be beleived, anyway.)
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Oy ve, I should have proofread:
I'm quite suprised that no one's ever based a movie on one of those, particularly 'Mistress'. Or even just an anime.
Perhaps it's 'too expensive' to do it Right. But that doesn't explain why ther have been no attempts at animating his stories. It's no more expensive to draw things faithfully to the book than any other way.
Friday, The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, Stranger In A Strange Land, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Citizen of the Galaxy and Methuselah's Children are all fantastic...
Yes, I beleive they are, too.
I'm quit esuprised that noone's ever bases a movie on one of those, particularly 'Mistress'. Or even just an anime.
DO I have to think of everything for you?
Attach your machine to a generator. Poof, you aren't paying electric billsanymore. In face, in many states, you are MAKING money for all the electricity you pu back into the grid.
Use that money to buy a cheap alectric car. Put your machine in it and take out (sell) the batteries. Sell the car to someone.
That person recommends you to their friends. COnvert their electric cars to run off your machine.
Etc, etc.
Sheesh, use your imagination.
OK, you can ask the "if a tree falls in a forest..." questions if you want: if you're never going to meet this person again, and they're never going to find out, does it really matter? I don't know. But that sort of abstract situation isn't reality. There's nothing at all difficult about the kind of trick Consumerist pulled. If you're doing this stuff routinely, you're taking a risk someone will find out.
All the tech has to do is hook the drive up as a slave to another PC, and scan for pix that way. There is no way software (that's not running) on the customer PC can detect that.
Now- since we're back to the question: "if a tree falls in a forest..." questions if you want: if you're never going to meet this person again, and they're never going to find out, does it really matter?
He said he was prepping the drive for a re-format, that generally indicates backing up all private data, however well-hidden it may be (programs aren't always nice, they don't all store everything in the Documents and Settings folder, so you have a responsibility to go looking for any data the customer may want saved.
He didn't SAY he was backing stuff up, he just said he was "preparing to format a hard drive returned to us by someone". It was a "RETURNED" drive. There was NO need to look thru the files on it. Format it. Period.
he was probably using windows explorer
Maybe. Maybe not.
It displays thumbnails (or a slideshow) of folders containing only images by default.
Maybe. unless the settings were changed. Like, maybe by a guy who didn't want honking big thumbnails of his porn popping up when ever he opened the folder,
The point is...
If something happens 1/12 of the time, it certainly IS a big deal.
a 1:12 ratio is hardly damning of the whole organization
As someone else pointed out above, if you had your credit card number 'stolen' 1/12 of the time you went to a particular store, would you still think it no big deal??
'Approriate' mean "to take exclusive possession of", according to m-w.com.
'exclusive' mean "limiting or limited to possession, control, or use by a single individual or group"
Kinda hard for the original owner to use something one I have "exclusive possession" of it.
To "take away" something means it longer was where it was, you have taken it away.
You don't need anyone to 'take you seriously' in order to make money.
I can think of a ton of ways to make money without anyone even knowing you are using a 'perpetual motion machine'.
Put it in an electric car. Sure, someone will eventually notice that you never actually have to recharge the (nonexistant) batteries, but you can add a fake recharging cord for that.
Buy/start a company that sells generators. This is riskier, because people WILL notice they never have to fuel the genny.
Buy an old power station, and gut it. Set up your machines, and sell electricity.
etc.
Um, ocean-going ships appear to "withstand the beating and corrosive power of salt water" quite well.
No, going 100% by the law, that isn't okay.
It's illegal for my GF to record the latest 'Stargate: Atlantis' episode while I'm at work, and bring it over so I can watch it?? I doubt that.
If your friend actually hands you his only copy then sure
That's what I said: He "give[s] me the recording..."
By that argument, every library with a copy machine is guilty.
Exactly.
If I watch a TV show live, It's okay. (Even if I don't watch the commercials.)
If I record a TV show with a VCR and watch it later, It's okay.
If I record a TV show on a DVR and watch it later, It's okay.
If I have a friend record a TV show (VCR or DVR) and give me the recording so I can watch it later, It's okay.
BUT...
If my 'friend' is an unknown person sharing a bittorrent, it's NOT okay?
tThey have fun, pocket the $1, and then you go home.
I think you mean "They get run over in the parking lot, die, and you go to jail".
But the idea that you can detect shoplifters by seeing what they are watching is still extremely useful.
Unfortunately, it's complete BS. Any 'good' shoplifter will KNOW you are looking for people who are watching the employees, and will deliberately NOT look at you. Sure, you'll catch a few kids and amateurs, but the 'pros' will breeze right by you.
An expert told me, "You can tell the shoplifters because they are watching you, not their shopping." Now does everyone that looks at the night manager a shoplifter? Of course not, and only a fool would believe it, and only a bigger fool would suggest it.
Then your "expert" was a big fool. How can "shoplifters watch the employees" WITHOUT looking at them? Looking at them is a prerqeuisite for 'watching' them. Wher eis the line drawn between 'looking' and 'watching'??
And you think that the FBI gets off on following up on completely useless tips?
Well, you see, there is this thing called 'Data Mining'. For it to work best, the database that is 'mined' needs to have as much data as possible. So, while the FBI may not "get off" of following up every tip, they may very well 'get off' by entering every tip into a huge database.
Or maybe you think they can't tell the difference between suspicious and ordinary, even though you seem to have no trouble?
I posted one such example in the post you replied to. (Okay, it was the DEA, not the FBI. DO you REALLY think they are that different?)
The Govt is what is 'cartoonish'.
Stolen from : http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?ART=96:
What freedom is taken away by the FBI asking people to watch out for certain behaviors
Nothing.
IF the behaviours are not unreasonable vague.
The list of behaviours mentioned here IS unreasonably vague.
It creates a surveilance society. People become afraid to do or say anything because their neighbors might report them for 'suspicious activity'. "I tell you, officer, they left town last week, and didn't tell everyone about their travel plans." "The father leaves for work WAY to early, and gets home late sometimes..." "They bought a new car last week. Where'd they get the cash? Must be terrorists..."
the FBI wants people to report suspicious activity. Wow!! I'm outraged.
Since when is having a bit of cash ("Unexplained affluence") a suspicious activity?
Since when is failign to bore people with every detail of your vacation ("failing to report overseas travel,") a suspicious activity?
Since when is curiosity ("showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope") a suspicious activity?
Since when is working a night job ("keeping unusual work hours") a suspicious activity?
etc.
etc.
so that will affect growers in Brazil equally to those in the US,
We were talking about illegal immigrants picking fruit IN THE US.
In a market or where all competition is all affected equally,/i>
A national law fining companies thousands of dollars a day for each illegal worker would 'affect all competition equally'.
Grocery stores may decide to buy 0 California oranges...
And customers may decide not to shop at places that don't carry the things they want.
The wages of fruit pickers could probably double without totally destroying our economy
Picking costs about 5% of the total cost of fruit. That means out of the $1.00 you spend for an apple, 5 cents goes to the pickers. This means that the pickers could be payed $20.00 per hour instead of $2.00, and the end price would only go up 45%. (Do the math: 95cents + 5 cents= $1. Multiple 5 cents by 10 = 50 cents. 95cents + 50cents = $1.45, a 45% increase from the original dollar)
I'm sure they could get Americans to pick fruit for $20.00 per hour. And the price of fruit would nowhere near 'double', as some doomsayers contend.
The problem is the minority who abuse the authority for kicks or personal gain.
No, the REAL problem is the supposedly 'good' cops who do nothing about the 'bad' ones.
And it would probably take mere minutes for an expert to expose the fake.
.bmp to show ANYTHING I WANT.
The point is that there IS no way to 'expose' it as fake. (Assuming it was done half-way decently.) It's a PRINTOUT of a SCREENSHOT. I can hit PrintScreen, save in MSPaint, and copy/paste the individual IP digits in the
The ONLY ways they can dispute the screen shot is to:
1) Try to discredit ME, and by that, discredit the evidence I present (ie: the 'screenshot').
or
2) Provide logs from their proxy server showing the connections in the screen shot never happened. The problem with this is they will be presenting (you guessed it...) a PRINTOUT of a trivial-to-change text file.
These are the same issues that 'pirates' face trying to fight the RIAA. It's hard for a 'dirty music stealin' pirate' to discredit the RIAA, and most people don't keep adequite logs (and since they are trivial to forge, they wouldn't be beleived, anyway.)