You could have it only filtered completely if it's suspect rating is high enough and then otherwise just tag it if the rating is below a certain point.
That said... white lists are your friends.
Funny thing though... someone forwarded me some "funny" e-mail and usually they are not that humorous. I was so damned pleased when it was filtered out.
That said, I haven't moved to deletion just yet. I just tag the mail and sort it later. As soon as I'm sufficiently happy with the system highly suspect mails can get purged auto-magically.
According to the Wikipedia article this is indeed a correct usage of the modern interpretation of the phrase. However, I will acknowledge this is a highly debated subject and I agree with the traditional form of the phrase.
However, specifically referring to the article it would appear that "begs the question" has been consistently interchanged with "raising the question" enough so the meaning has drifted.
(I did check and make sure there wasn't a new revision as it would be entirely horrible for someone to change an article to support their view. "Ha, I have changed history to make my mistake a mistake no longer!" Doesn't that sound grand?)
In the future, do not post links that have a direct conflict with your argument. I recommend relying on anger and hatred as everyone just loves red hot flames!
"I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you... a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world... where anything is possible. Where we go from here is a choice I leave to you."
Ok, sounded cooler in my head... it's still moderately funny though:P
You can check out Gunbound as well. They just recently released a US server so things might be faster.
It's like an earlier version of worms, but with vehicles and items.
The catch? Money is a pain to earn, but with enough time you can get pretty much anything you want. It's unfortunately a bit slanted once you have been given some experience and go against the more well equipped players.
That said, players used to be able to earn pretty much their way through out the game without paying a dime, but last time I looked it was a bit tougher. (All depends on how much time you have or just play against your friends like me)
With all that said... you can actually purchase cash to use in the game, but I was never fond of this approach.
I was annoyed that I came into the series late and had NO idea what was going on.
I remember being told it was a great show, but there was little way for me at the time to make up any missed episodes. Consequently, I only watched some of the episodes years later when TNT started airing it. (Or did they always?).
I generally liked it, but I missed far too much of it to grasp the whole story.
Assumming the only variance is the watermark and the tracks are sample for sample nearly the same... it would make it rather not-difficult to remove the water mark.
Of course, unless there is some padding involved, the file hash will be different. So would that cause every variation to show up on a p2p network. ie, your search for "Bad Artist - Bad Song" produces 900 results. I'm assumming most P2P apps use a simple md5 sum or some such hash generated to match exact files.
Now come up with an alternate hash system that uses a sample at specific intervals and simply compares those values and tosses out minor variances then it seems we have a winner. That could also be used in conjunction with a file name and file size comparison. ie, very very similar.
Seems like such a setup might suffer from generational loss. Artifacts are bound to slip in at some point in the mass sharing frenzy of an ant farm. At some point, an individual file will have too much generational loss to be shared among the masses.
On the flip side, if you did chunk by chunk comparisons you run the risk of generating too much data. In turn it could cause issues scaling high enough to meet the masses demand for pirated music.
Then again, I'm only theorizing. I could be completely off here, but if someone happens to be an expert I would be interested to hear their thoughts.
On a side note, I remember a comment from the iTunes drm buster. Effectively, he could detect the watermark, but decided to keep it in even when converting to mp3. He simply wanted to bust the encryption and not invite mass piracy.
Remember, they do seem to be appealing to the masses and enforcing strict version control probably makes life easier for the little guy.
If it can break, people will break it... kinda like if you build it, they will come.
That said, I've noticed some odd problems crop up between minor releases and my network profile. I really can't say for certain what blasted all of my data, but since then I've brought every system in software sync. (I create my own problems as my box tends to test things).
Anyhow, restore, relish and bask... unfortunately I don't even know if it was Firefox's fault because it's simpler to restore then actually sort out a one time problem for ONE user. (As a side note, I pay for more attention to the users needs then my own because I don't complain about my own junk being broken.)
I really don't have time to play my Eve account right now, but I'm still subbed. Granted, I'm blowing something like 12.95 a month with barely any playtime, but my character grows even when I'm offline.
When I do have time to play, I actually don't have that much "catch up" to do with everyone who has been playing the whole time.
So yeah, it's great for the casual gamer who wants to play, but just can't dedicate massive amounts of time to an MMO.
I might as well throw out an ad for my corporation...
Fellow/.'s look up Trade Consortium if you happen to pick up Eve. (Just don't expect to see me much while I'm remodeling the homestead)
The web is borked due to standards being implemented incorrectly and browser makers having to make the decisions on supporting X widely used feature or sticking to the standard. I'm sure if you want to read up fully there are a billion rants simply a search away.
When it comes down to ODF...
It's not precisely proprietary so anyone can make a filter to import to their native feature set. If the software vendor simply can't figure out how to make it work with their own software then perhaps they should outsource their programming division. *ducks*
It's not like there are a billion wild ways to format text.
However, importing embdedded spread sheets and other non-native word processor formats could very well yield severe incompatabilities. Then again, simple tables and graphics are not so uncommon.
None the less, I've had issues opening Microsoft documents from various versions and in the end the only fix was to move all of our offices to a single version of word. In some places we have had individuals export their final work as PDF to ensure readability.
It's crazy yes, but to say ODF is a bad idea is probably even crazier.
I rather welcome the day when I can ask someone to simply save and/or export as ODF.
It's not even a difficult modification to the fire arm.
Someone in my college actually stuffed an embedded controller into the stock of his gun, wired up a servo to the firing pin and wrote an auth program based around an iButton.
If the rifle did not recieve an auth attempt in X minutes, it would lock the firing pin. It could also limit the number of rounds fired and various other little accounting tricks.
It's not difficult nor impossible to defeat the security, but little can stand in the way of a determined individual.
How are the engineers able to make further evaluations on the break down or even isolate the problem to a couple failed components?
Personally, I find that part the most fascinating as I generally have to look at a component to know what has failed. Unless of course, I knew that X part was a POS and I shouldn't have used it. (though in the past I have known a component was going to eventually fail due to physical inspection or odd readings, but I was lazy and put it into production anyway!)
You act as if the tools are not necesary for the job.
Next time you have to do something that requires the least amount of precision (due to fines, complaints and general hazards of being wrong) try using the bare minimum equipment or none at all.
The guy was dead on in his assessment and insulting him does nothing to further your point.
So yeah, it's crap, if you want this same functionality... you can go out and buy a wireless repeater and flash it with the "spectrum analyzer" firmware for monitoring. Don't care to look up the name, but I'm sure more then one company offers those options.
I once reported a video store for doing the same thing. I didn't mind so much they were pirated, but the fact is they didn't even make an attempt to remove the macrovision.
I called the FBI to report this heinous crime (mind you I was like 12 or 13) and got bounced around a few times. They were surprisingly friendly to a kid who claimed a rental store was dishing out pirated flicks.
Anyhow, I talked to someone and I told them about it. I really wanted this to be anonymous, but I said I would give them my name and address if it was really necessary. The lady said it was ok and she didn't need my info as they had a couple reports already. About a week later the store was shut down and everyone blamed me! It was great and I didn't give two shits if people really thought it was my fault.
Season pass is an iTunes feature to sell you the whole season even before it is out. So when new episodes are relased you are notified of them being available for download.
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I find your terms acceptable. ;)
Well,
You could have it only filtered completely if it's suspect rating is high enough and then otherwise just tag it if the rating is below a certain point.
That said... white lists are your friends.
Funny thing though... someone forwarded me some "funny" e-mail and usually they are not that humorous. I was so damned pleased when it was filtered out.
That said, I haven't moved to deletion just yet. I just tag the mail and sort it later. As soon as I'm sufficiently happy with the system highly suspect mails can get purged auto-magically.
Excellent...
By chance, are you nearby?
I have a wonderful set of wikipedia tablets I made and I'm eager to offload them...er I mean... trade them.
It's the updates you see, I've been having a bit of a nightmare trying to keep them all in sync.
Although I hate to nit pick here.
According to the Wikipedia article this is indeed a correct usage of the modern interpretation of the phrase. However, I will acknowledge this is a highly debated subject and I agree with the traditional form of the phrase.
However, specifically referring to the article it would appear that "begs the question" has been consistently interchanged with "raising the question" enough so the meaning has drifted.
(I did check and make sure there wasn't a new revision as it would be entirely horrible for someone to change an article to support their view. "Ha, I have changed history to make my mistake a mistake no longer!" Doesn't that sound grand?)
In the future, do not post links that have a direct conflict with your argument. I recommend relying on anger and hatred as everyone just loves red hot flames!
A conversation overheard between Ring0 and MSFT
:P
"I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you... a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world... where anything is possible. Where we go from here is a choice I leave to you."
Ok, sounded cooler in my head... it's still moderately funny though
I started to nominate myself and then realized what exactly I was doing...
I decided to flip over to the rules section to see if they would respect privacy or at least attempt to lie to me. (It's the little things that count)
So, if you don't like your IT staff that much... go sign em' up. Reward them with 40 or 50 more personalized junk mailings!
You can check out Gunbound as well. They just recently released a US server so things might be faster.
It's like an earlier version of worms, but with vehicles and items.
The catch? Money is a pain to earn, but with enough time you can get pretty much anything you want. It's unfortunately a bit slanted once you have been given some experience and go against the more well equipped players.
That said, players used to be able to earn pretty much their way through out the game without paying a dime, but last time I looked it was a bit tougher. (All depends on how much time you have or just play against your friends like me)
With all that said... you can actually purchase cash to use in the game, but I was never fond of this approach.
Precisely!
:P
I was annoyed that I came into the series late and had NO idea what was going on.
I remember being told it was a great show, but there was little way for me at the time to make up any missed episodes. Consequently, I only watched some of the episodes years later when TNT started airing it. (Or did they always?).
I generally liked it, but I missed far too much of it to grasp the whole story.
Too bad I didn't have a PVR then
Sounds like something commies and terrorists will use!
Joking... at least I am.
Hell,
;)
Even I wanted some page views on some odd ball site I had made up and asked a friend to post a link on IGN.
We know whats its for, stop lying to yourselves and use the tools you have
Assumming the only variance is the watermark and the tracks are sample for sample nearly the same... it would make it rather not-difficult to remove the water mark.
Of course, unless there is some padding involved, the file hash will be different. So would that cause every variation to show up on a p2p network. ie, your search for "Bad Artist - Bad Song" produces 900 results. I'm assumming most P2P apps use a simple md5 sum or some such hash generated to match exact files.
Now come up with an alternate hash system that uses a sample at specific intervals and simply compares those values and tosses out minor variances then it seems we have a winner. That could also be used in conjunction with a file name and file size comparison. ie, very very similar.
Seems like such a setup might suffer from generational loss. Artifacts are bound to slip in at some point in the mass sharing frenzy of an ant farm. At some point, an individual file will have too much generational loss to be shared among the masses.
On the flip side, if you did chunk by chunk comparisons you run the risk of generating too much data. In turn it could cause issues scaling high enough to meet the masses demand for pirated music.
Then again, I'm only theorizing. I could be completely off here, but if someone happens to be an expert I would be interested to hear their thoughts.
On a side note, I remember a comment from the iTunes drm buster. Effectively, he could detect the watermark, but decided to keep it in even when converting to mp3. He simply wanted to bust the encryption and not invite mass piracy.
I hate to say it, but I like them.
I haven't been reading as much lately and the slashback's are generally put together well.
So I catch up on an article I missed and get some of the higher rated comments.
It's slashdot for the lazy! (or very busy)
Because sometimes things really don't work right!
Remember, they do seem to be appealing to the masses and enforcing strict version control probably makes life easier for the little guy.
If it can break, people will break it... kinda like if you build it, they will come.
That said, I've noticed some odd problems crop up between minor releases and my network profile. I really can't say for certain what blasted all of my data, but since then I've brought every system in software sync. (I create my own problems as my box tends to test things).
Anyhow, restore, relish and bask... unfortunately I don't even know if it was Firefox's fault because it's simpler to restore then actually sort out a one time problem for ONE user. (As a side note, I pay for more attention to the users needs then my own because I don't complain about my own junk being broken.)
I'm already working on that...
Not sure how this feature slipped through the proverbial fingers, but I'm making progress.
Release one should quickly highlight all spelling and grammar errors and provide a pop-up to submit your flames!
Hopefully, we can toss together an "instant" flame template that will use pieces of the original work and simply automate the entire process.
I'm not sure if the title "USENET" is already taken, but I'm seriously considering it.
Don't worry...
News outlets are already touting it as a good sign.
With all of the bad press concerning monitoring I'm sure they needed to cash in on something even if it wasn't a great one.
Media spin can change anything into a great disaster!
I'm in the same boat... at least on B.
/.'s look up Trade Consortium if you happen to pick up Eve. (Just don't expect to see me much while I'm remodeling the homestead)
I really don't have time to play my Eve account right now, but I'm still subbed. Granted, I'm blowing something like 12.95 a month with barely any playtime, but my character grows even when I'm offline.
When I do have time to play, I actually don't have that much "catch up" to do with everyone who has been playing the whole time.
So yeah, it's great for the casual gamer who wants to play, but just can't dedicate massive amounts of time to an MMO.
I might as well throw out an ad for my corporation...
Fellow
Oh so unfair...
The web is borked due to standards being implemented incorrectly and browser makers having to make the decisions on supporting X widely used feature or sticking to the standard. I'm sure if you want to read up fully there are a billion rants simply a search away.
When it comes down to ODF...
It's not precisely proprietary so anyone can make a filter to import to their native feature set. If the software vendor simply can't figure out how to make it work with their own software then perhaps they should outsource their programming division. *ducks*
It's not like there are a billion wild ways to format text.
However, importing embdedded spread sheets and other non-native word processor formats could very well yield severe incompatabilities. Then again, simple tables and graphics are not so uncommon.
None the less, I've had issues opening Microsoft documents from various versions and in the end the only fix was to move all of our offices to a single version of word. In some places we have had individuals export their final work as PDF to ensure readability.
It's crazy yes, but to say ODF is a bad idea is probably even crazier.
I rather welcome the day when I can ask someone to simply save and/or export as ODF.
Because there are regular gas stations and not just iGas stations.
You don't have to goto iGas stations.
Me, I have a nano and I still don't goto iGas stations nor do I goto winGas stations.
Sure,
It's not even a difficult modification to the fire arm.
Someone in my college actually stuffed an embedded controller into the stock of his gun, wired up a servo to the firing pin and wrote an auth program based around an iButton.
If the rifle did not recieve an auth attempt in X minutes, it would lock the firing pin. It could also limit the number of rounds fired and various other little accounting tricks.
It's not difficult nor impossible to defeat the security, but little can stand in the way of a determined individual.
Oiy!
Maybe you can answer a question of mine then!
How are the engineers able to make further evaluations on the break down or even isolate the problem to a couple failed components?
Personally, I find that part the most fascinating as I generally have to look at a component to know what has failed. Unless of course, I knew that X part was a POS and I shouldn't have used it. (though in the past I have known a component was going to eventually fail due to physical inspection or odd readings, but I was lazy and put it into production anyway!)
Details appreciated and thanks for the insight.
Welcome to Boston, MA
I feel I have to chime in here...
You act as if the tools are not necesary for the job.
Next time you have to do something that requires the least amount of precision (due to fines, complaints and general hazards of being wrong) try using the bare minimum equipment or none at all.
The guy was dead on in his assessment and insulting him does nothing to further your point.
So yeah, it's crap, if you want this same functionality... you can go out and buy a wireless repeater and flash it with the "spectrum analyzer" firmware for monitoring. Don't care to look up the name, but I'm sure more then one company offers those options.
My favorite...
I am.... Captain Condom!
which is funny...
I once reported a video store for doing the same thing. I didn't mind so much they were pirated, but the fact is they didn't even make an attempt to remove the macrovision.
I called the FBI to report this heinous crime (mind you I was like 12 or 13) and got bounced around a few times. They were surprisingly friendly to a kid who claimed a rental store was dishing out pirated flicks.
Anyhow, I talked to someone and I told them about it. I really wanted this to be anonymous, but I said I would give them my name and address if it was really necessary. The lady said it was ok and she didn't need my info as they had a couple reports already. About a week later the store was shut down and everyone blamed me! It was great and I didn't give two shits if people really thought it was my fault.
Not on my DVR....
Season pass is an iTunes feature to sell you the whole season even before it is out. So when new episodes are relased you are notified of them being available for download.