True dat. I've stuffed quarters (two at a time, now that it's 50c per play) into machines with a dead or stuck flipper on several occasions. And observed the machines staying in that condition for months. I don't generally try again now.
We have autonomous internet access, autonomous electronic mail, and autonomous peer to peer file transfers. There's no evidence that this autonymity has been used for anything other than criminal activity. I can only imagine for what sort of nefarious purposes autonomous race cars would be used.
I doubt that even the people at Ranger are dumb enough to use a consistent IP block that's owned by "Ranger Evil Copyright Jackboot Enforcement, LLP." They probably source the same consumer bandwidth lots of us are using.
I personally can't wait to see how they will deal with the ad hoc wireless networks that will start springing up in public places.
Except for systems like eDonkey that force sharing of partial files to make popular files more available--these sorts of schemes will be the most vulnerable to this kind of well poisining.
Hey, I love what Share Reactor's doing, too, but if you don't think that the *AA can successfully sue them for contributory infringement for posting the MD5s, you haven't been following the corrupt rulings (e.g. the 2600 DeCSS and Napster) coming from the U.S. courts of late.
C'mon. Linux? The un-American operating system? Right.
And Mac users aren't exactly the army type--I mean, picture the Mac fanatics you know. Can you see them carrying around M-16s and wearing camo? I guess they would have that "Army of One" part down, though.
Or social security numbers. In 1934, there was a great fear of assigning a number to everyone. Now, they are for all intents and purposes required at birth and to be presented to conducts all sorts of business. And kids today think nothing of it. America is the cliched frog being boiled slowly.
OK, the bandwidth isn't free, but try telling J.F. Consumer that when s/he's fully aware that his/her second cousin twice removed in Kokomo downloads a Linux distro for free whenever he wants and doesn't pay a cent.
Don't rich people have lots of money these days? Especially if you didn't invest in tech stocks, you should have lots of money.
When someone does steal your wallet, just ask them not to do it anymore, and move on. It's only a few hundred dollars, it's a drop in the bucket, and life goes on.
Absoulutely. I'm just tired of hearing people bash open source, free products when alternatives, both open (as you pointed out) and closed are available.
That was the campaign that helped cow Intel into dropping the processor serial number introduced in the Pentium III from future chips. It's been about a week since Palladium has been fed to the press, and the backlash from the technical press is significant.
Provided that the *AA doesn't come up with enough money to buy enough of Congress to get the CBDTPA passed next time around, I am hopeful that we will continue to own our own machines, as opposed to having them 0wned by "rights" managers.
But just in case, I think I'll stock up on a few "pre-ban" mainboards, CD-RWs, analog monitors, and CPUs
Reflections on Trusting Trust was also exactly what came to my mind when I read about the apparent ftp server compromise also.
<speculation mode=conspiracy tone=sardonic>Closed source vendors are planting trojans in open source code to create high profile incidents causing the general public to question its security and rely on safe, regularly patched Microsoft Palladium products</speculation>
Now the filter has to strip comments. And yes, I've received actual spams that use this technique. While I admire their cleverness, they still earn my extra special "FREE TIBET, Your arms shipment in support of the rebels and Falun Gong factions ready to overtake the PRC in Beijing" LART.
Two posts already and no Godwin's law invocation. OK, here goes:
Microsoft's obvious anti-Semitism, demonstrated clearly by their refusal to support Hebrew in Mac Office products, belies an obvious similarity to the Nazi party.
In the interest of fairness, however, Office:Mac doesn't support Arabic, either.
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True dat. I've stuffed quarters (two at a time, now that it's 50c per play) into machines with a dead or stuck flipper on several occasions. And observed the machines staying in that condition for months. I don't generally try again now.
We have autonomous internet access, autonomous electronic mail, and autonomous peer to peer file transfers. There's no evidence that this autonymity has been used for anything other than criminal activity. I can only imagine for what sort of nefarious purposes autonomous race cars would be used.
We wouldn't want all those people more intelligent than the rest of us to get rooted.
I personally can't wait to see how they will deal with the ad hoc wireless networks that will start springing up in public places.
Uh, yeah. We said we can 0wn your PC, but we don't really mean it. Pardon me for not believing that.
Except for systems like eDonkey that force sharing of partial files to make popular files more available--these sorts of schemes will be the most vulnerable to this kind of well poisining.
Great idea. We'll build it into the open source clients, in one conviently commented-out block.
Hey, I love what Share Reactor's doing, too, but if you don't think that the *AA can successfully sue them for contributory infringement for posting the MD5s, you haven't been following the corrupt rulings (e.g. the 2600 DeCSS and Napster) coming from the U.S. courts of late.
there's something rotten in Denmark.
And Mac users aren't exactly the army type--I mean, picture the Mac fanatics you know. Can you see them carrying around M-16s and wearing camo? I guess they would have that "Army of One" part down, though.
Or social security numbers. In 1934, there was a great fear of assigning a number to everyone. Now, they are for all intents and purposes required at birth and to be presented to conducts all sorts of business. And kids today think nothing of it. America is the cliched frog being boiled slowly.
OK, the bandwidth isn't free, but try telling J.F. Consumer that when s/he's fully aware that his/her second cousin twice removed in Kokomo downloads a Linux distro for free whenever he wants and doesn't pay a cent.
When someone does steal your wallet, just ask them not to do it anymore, and move on. It's only a few hundred dollars, it's a drop in the bucket, and life goes on.
What's the big deal?
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Their booth will be right next to the exhibit floor exit, with a big sign that says "WE HAVE THE WAY OUT."
What he's perhaps saying is that people are more inclined to come to her aid because of her social status.
But your local library can get those good books on advanced number theory or Fourier analysis via interlibrary loan. And it's still free.
Just make sure not to patch WMP, either.
And (barring their joining the TCPA at some later date) that appears to be Apple at the moment.
Absoulutely. I'm just tired of hearing people bash open source, free products when alternatives, both open (as you pointed out) and closed are available.
Provided that the *AA doesn't come up with enough money to buy enough of Congress to get the CBDTPA passed next time around, I am hopeful that we will continue to own our own machines, as opposed to having them 0wned by "rights" managers.
But just in case, I think I'll stock up on a few "pre-ban" mainboards, CD-RWs, analog monitors, and CPUs
If you need all that, you can get it here and pay for it. Sheesh.
<speculation mode=conspiracy tone=sardonic>Closed source vendors are planting trojans in open source code to create high profile incidents causing the general public to question its security and rely on safe, regularly patched Microsoft Palladium products</speculation>
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Now the filter has to strip comments. And yes, I've received actual spams that use this technique. While I admire their cleverness, they still earn my extra special "FREE TIBET, Your arms shipment in support of the rebels and Falun Gong factions ready to overtake the PRC in Beijing" LART.
Typical of the Mac "community." Ratio Hotline servers, "upload while downloading," "premium content" . . .
Microsoft's obvious anti-Semitism, demonstrated clearly by their refusal to support Hebrew in Mac Office products, belies an obvious similarity to the Nazi party.
In the interest of fairness, however, Office:Mac doesn't support Arabic, either.