Because a copyright on an old work expiring will motivate artists to create something new now much more than a lifelong gravy train. Locking up ideas as property at all is a shame, but if that's what it takes to motivate creative people, I can reluctantly accept it, but copyrights should last no longer than patents, and patents last long enough as it is.
The military has been looking for a pill that makes a 24/7 soldier by replacing sleep for a long time. Most of the experiments I have read about did not work as planned. After a while, no pill can stop a sleep deprived individual from suffering a psychotic break from reality as dream images inject themselves into reality.
This could lead to a so-called super soldier who doesn't need sleep going on a rampage and killing his comrades because he thought he saw the enemy. You can't just replace sleep with a pill. That's a nut we aren't going to crack. That's my two cents.
This suit reveals that Chuck doesn't think his fans are the sharpest knives in the drawer. You'd have to be a special kind of idiot not to realize this kind of stuff is a joke. He may have a point about protecting his own publicity rights, though.
I predict that this will be a really ugly shitstorm. No matter how many billions are spent to inform the public about what is coming, they either won't pay attention, or won't understand. The general public has no idea how their TV works. For all they know, there are little people inside it performing for them. Here is an example of people's cluelessness: When WCPO in Cincinnati experimented with offering Spanish on SAP, they were deluged with complaints by people who had SAP turned on for no reason, and thought it was some PC liberal plot that their TV was "talking foreign". They tried to explain it to people for a while, but had to just turn SAP off, and have not offered it since.
If in the unlikely event that anyone here was one of those morons, SAP stands for second audio program, and you are not supposed to have it turned on.
When people's TVs just stop working one day, it will be the WCPO SAP debacle times 100 for every station in the country.
When repairing a PC, it is necessary to access the hard drive. Period. If in the course of this, I discover that you are a pedo perv, you damn well better believe it that I am calling the cops! It is my civic duty.
Don't want others looking at your computer? Get some books and figure out how to fix and/or upgrade it yourself.
When did you get too old to view things with child-like wonder instead of picking them apart and judging them? That is when Star Wars jumped the shark. People who loved the originals as children and hated the prequels as adults might want to consider how much nostalgia clouds their opinions. While Phantom Menace tried too hard to be kid friendly, Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith were not bad.
"Experts" keep telling me that is can't happen. "Experts" also said the Titanic did not break in two because ships don't do that, and eyewitnesses must have imagined it. Even as Administrator, I was locked out of my files. Vista Home Premium doesn't even have bitlocker.
When any strange dialog appears, just click the red X at the upper right. Answering the dialog at all is just asking for trouble. Too bad no one who needs this advice will actually get here to read it.
I had my Lenovo 3000 N100 which came preloaded with Vista about a week, and it crashed hard. It could not boot up. I thought it would be no big deal. I removed my hard drive, backed it up and reloaded. It was a big deal. Thanks to user account control. I was locked out of all the data I had hoped to save, including my outlook mail and contacts therein. Permanently gone and unrecoverable.
The next problem was slowness. This laptop replaced an old HP with an Athlon XP 1500+ with 768MB of SDRAM. In spite of having a Dual core CPU and 1GB of DDR2, the new one was slower than the old one, and using an SD card for Windows Ready Boost made no difference. I had to upgrade to 2GB just to make it usable. It is still too damn slow.
If I did not need to provide support to poor suckers who had Vista foisted on them, I would upgrade to XP and not look back. Vist should have been scrapped. It is worse than ME.
In the future, you will be able to download your brain. Do this near the end of your life, then upload it all into a clone's brain. You can live forever!
When I read that these drives were originally for government agencies, I suspected it might be Monkeypoo...
VIRUS WARNING:
Attention: Computer Labs Inc., makers of Virucide antivirus software have identified a highly dangerous new Trojan worm, MONKEYPOO. It will usually appear in an e-mail with the subject, "Congratulations.You have won!" it will then prompt you to click a link to collect your cash prize. It can also freely spread across networks.
Monkeypoo will read your address book, and mail a copy of itself to every address it finds, and it will look like you sent it. It will then invoke the secret self-destruct command held over from the original IBM PC's 8086 command set. This short line of code will cause the processor, ram, hard drive and any floppy drives to spin out of control and overheat until key components melt together, and will most likely cause a fire.
James Winklee, a former IBM programmer had this to say. "We developed the self-destruct code so government agencies such as the FBI and CIA could quickly and completely destroy compromised computer systems before an enemy could get their hands on classified information. When we saw how violently a PC executing the command burst into flames, we decided not to publish its existence. It has been kept a secret successfully until now. If you get infected with the Monkeypoo Trojan worm, you may notice your computer going completely haywire. Physically unplug it from power as fast as you can, and send it in for repair. Only a professional can remove this one."
While Computer Labs Inc and other antivirus software makers are working on a solution, they haven't got one a home user could successfully run yet. "This is the worst kind of malicious code I have ever seen." said Marcus Polan of Computer labs Inc. Use extreme caution.
It is important that as many computer users as possible receive this warning, so send it out to as many people as you can. The entire Internet and every PC connected to it is at risk.
You are right about that. Our parliament of whores will only turn tricks for the richest johns that lobbyists pimp them out to, and somehow it is us who get screwed.
Another problem is that the version of McAfee that comes with AOL does nothing if users don't register it, and create a user ID and password. McAfee has no business complaining about this problem when they created it.
The bloggers who cried foul pointed out that there was more than one font, and typewriters don't do that. I've got news. YES THEY DO. The IBM Selectric I learned to type on had two fonts: elite and pica. That was a common feature of electric typewriters.
That report was a hatchet job. Bad ram is very rare, and deliberately sabotaged ram would only happen in a hack investigative report like this one. Because bad ram is so rare, most kids at Best Buy or other such companies would never think of that. Most computers that won't behave have some kind of malware on them, and when hardware really fails, the hard drive has moving parts. It WILL eventually wear out.
As for Windows missing key system files, this is also not going to happen without some kind of malware trashing them. A virus scanner may have removed that malware only after the destructive payload was delivered, so the shops that suggested a virus were reasonable. Deliberate sabotage is not a fair test. You will probably not encounter it in the real world.
In the Windows 98 Era, people who didn't know computers might read an article that says to delete files you don't use to free up hard drive space, then wipe out key system files, but that is unlikely in 2000, XP or Vista.
IO error: Idiot Operator, Error ID 10 T. Those are two I have heard.
Most people who have computers have them for work, because kids allegedly need them for school, or because someone told them they would be left behind without one. These people have no clue how they work and no desire to learn. Microsoft makes life harder for them with every change. We have had the start menu since Windows 95, yet most still use their icons for everything.
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I don't know about the author, but the Chinese are convinced a lot of us use them. This is all part of China's war on us without firing a shot!.
Because a copyright on an old work expiring will motivate artists to create something new now much more than a lifelong gravy train. Locking up ideas as property at all is a shame, but if that's what it takes to motivate creative people, I can reluctantly accept it, but copyrights should last no longer than patents, and patents last long enough as it is.
Most of us are descended from great apes. Floridians are descended from red-ass baboons.
The military has been looking for a pill that makes a 24/7 soldier by replacing sleep for a long time. Most of the experiments I have read about did not work as planned. After a while, no pill can stop a sleep deprived individual from suffering a psychotic break from reality as dream images inject themselves into reality.
This could lead to a so-called super soldier who doesn't need sleep going on a rampage and killing his comrades because he thought he saw the enemy. You can't just replace sleep with a pill. That's a nut we aren't going to crack. That's my two cents.
This suit reveals that Chuck doesn't think his fans are the sharpest knives in the drawer. You'd have to be a special kind of idiot not to realize this kind of stuff is a joke. He may have a point about protecting his own publicity rights, though.
I predict that this will be a really ugly shitstorm. No matter how many billions are spent to inform the public about what is coming, they either won't pay attention, or won't understand. The general public has no idea how their TV works. For all they know, there are little people inside it performing for them. Here is an example of people's cluelessness: When WCPO in Cincinnati experimented with offering Spanish on SAP, they were deluged with complaints by people who had SAP turned on for no reason, and thought it was some PC liberal plot that their TV was "talking foreign". They tried to explain it to people for a while, but had to just turn SAP off, and have not offered it since.
If in the unlikely event that anyone here was one of those morons, SAP stands for second audio program, and you are not supposed to have it turned on.
When people's TVs just stop working one day, it will be the WCPO SAP debacle times 100 for every station in the country.
When repairing a PC, it is necessary to access the hard drive. Period. If in the course of this, I discover that you are a pedo perv, you damn well better believe it that I am calling the cops! It is my civic duty. Don't want others looking at your computer? Get some books and figure out how to fix and/or upgrade it yourself.
There is natively Martian life. That is why Congress doesn't want NASA to do any manned missions. Read More.
Only superpowers have it.
It was the best of times
It was the BLURST of times?
You stupid ape!
Even Vista is not as bad as the Sony CDs with rootkits. That should have been number one.
When did you get too old to view things with child-like wonder instead of picking them apart and judging them? That is when Star Wars jumped the shark. People who loved the originals as children and hated the prequels as adults might want to consider how much nostalgia clouds their opinions. While Phantom Menace tried too hard to be kid friendly, Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith were not bad.
"Experts" keep telling me that is can't happen. "Experts" also said the Titanic did not break in two because ships don't do that, and eyewitnesses must have imagined it. Even as Administrator, I was locked out of my files. Vista Home Premium doesn't even have bitlocker.
When any strange dialog appears, just click the red X at the upper right. Answering the dialog at all is just asking for trouble. Too bad no one who needs this advice will actually get here to read it.
I had my Lenovo 3000 N100 which came preloaded with Vista about a week, and it crashed hard. It could not boot up. I thought it would be no big deal. I removed my hard drive, backed it up and reloaded. It was a big deal. Thanks to user account control. I was locked out of all the data I had hoped to save, including my outlook mail and contacts therein. Permanently gone and unrecoverable. The next problem was slowness. This laptop replaced an old HP with an Athlon XP 1500+ with 768MB of SDRAM. In spite of having a Dual core CPU and 1GB of DDR2, the new one was slower than the old one, and using an SD card for Windows Ready Boost made no difference. I had to upgrade to 2GB just to make it usable. It is still too damn slow. If I did not need to provide support to poor suckers who had Vista foisted on them, I would upgrade to XP and not look back. Vist should have been scrapped. It is worse than ME.
This sounds like dime novel sci-fi
In the future, you will be able to download your brain. Do this near the end of your life, then upload it all into a clone's brain. You can live forever!
Yeah, right.
When I read that these drives were originally for government agencies, I suspected it might be Monkeypoo... VIRUS WARNING: Attention: Computer Labs Inc., makers of Virucide antivirus software have identified a highly dangerous new Trojan worm, MONKEYPOO. It will usually appear in an e-mail with the subject, "Congratulations.You have won!" it will then prompt you to click a link to collect your cash prize. It can also freely spread across networks. Monkeypoo will read your address book, and mail a copy of itself to every address it finds, and it will look like you sent it. It will then invoke the secret self-destruct command held over from the original IBM PC's 8086 command set. This short line of code will cause the processor, ram, hard drive and any floppy drives to spin out of control and overheat until key components melt together, and will most likely cause a fire. James Winklee, a former IBM programmer had this to say. "We developed the self-destruct code so government agencies such as the FBI and CIA could quickly and completely destroy compromised computer systems before an enemy could get their hands on classified information. When we saw how violently a PC executing the command burst into flames, we decided not to publish its existence. It has been kept a secret successfully until now. If you get infected with the Monkeypoo Trojan worm, you may notice your computer going completely haywire. Physically unplug it from power as fast as you can, and send it in for repair. Only a professional can remove this one." While Computer Labs Inc and other antivirus software makers are working on a solution, they haven't got one a home user could successfully run yet. "This is the worst kind of malicious code I have ever seen." said Marcus Polan of Computer labs Inc. Use extreme caution. It is important that as many computer users as possible receive this warning, so send it out to as many people as you can. The entire Internet and every PC connected to it is at risk.
The last one was in 1998, so the next one will be in 2018, then 2038, then 2058...
You are right about that. Our parliament of whores will only turn tricks for the richest johns that lobbyists pimp them out to, and somehow it is us who get screwed.
So many people today believe in so much nonsense that a new dark age can't be far off.
Another problem is that the version of McAfee that comes with AOL does nothing if users don't register it, and create a user ID and password. McAfee has no business complaining about this problem when they created it.
The bloggers who cried foul pointed out that there was more than one font, and typewriters don't do that. I've got news. YES THEY DO. The IBM Selectric I learned to type on had two fonts: elite and pica. That was a common feature of electric typewriters.
That report was a hatchet job. Bad ram is very rare, and deliberately sabotaged ram would only happen in a hack investigative report like this one. Because bad ram is so rare, most kids at Best Buy or other such companies would never think of that. Most computers that won't behave have some kind of malware on them, and when hardware really fails, the hard drive has moving parts. It WILL eventually wear out. As for Windows missing key system files, this is also not going to happen without some kind of malware trashing them. A virus scanner may have removed that malware only after the destructive payload was delivered, so the shops that suggested a virus were reasonable. Deliberate sabotage is not a fair test. You will probably not encounter it in the real world. In the Windows 98 Era, people who didn't know computers might read an article that says to delete files you don't use to free up hard drive space, then wipe out key system files, but that is unlikely in 2000, XP or Vista.
IO error: Idiot Operator, Error ID 10 T. Those are two I have heard.
Most people who have computers have them for work, because kids allegedly need them for school, or because someone told them they would be left behind without one. These people have no clue how they work and no desire to learn. Microsoft makes life harder for them with every change. We have had the start menu since Windows 95, yet most still use their icons for everything.
Yes, that is what "advertiser supported" always turns out to mean on the net: Spyware and lots of it.