Am I right in thinking that Astrological predictions are based on star charts that are several thousands of years old?? I think I read that somewhere, but it may not be accurate. If it is, why would anyone believe that predictions based on several-thousand-year-old charts would be in any way accurate?? Why would the positions of the stars 2,000 years ago have any affect on, for example, my personal life next week??
Perhaps of more importance, how does the discovery of many more stars, planets and galaxies fuck up those charts??
I'd say, put the fish back, but put it in a relatively inaccessible place, like maybe in the middle of the roof. Then wire it up to something like a tazer. If someone has to go out of their way to reach it and pull it off, make it worth the effort...
Disclaimer: probably illegal in most states, but who make a complaint when they'd have to incriminate themselves to do so??
Forget picking on the rest of the world, this idiot is picking on the Military. There are plenty of stealth organizations in various different country's that could make him disappear if he got up their collective noses...
Not just an asshole, but a crackhead too. Here's a few other "Famous Trademarks" watched over by Rentamark:
Sentra
Intruder
Stradivarius
Turbojet
Checkmate
Airframe
Fable
Torrent
Aerospace
Star Light
Terminator
Ambush
I bet they don't try to enforce "Ambush", though - military forces all over the world must have substantially more firepower than any vexatious litigator. Should be interesting watching him track down any number of terrorists (sorry, "freedom fighters") that "ambush" occupation forces and innocent civilians.
BTW: the Famous Marks page looks like real crap. Some images don't load and the ones that do look like a four-year-old got loose with a paintbox
Seems that way to me too. The road running near my house is single-lane each way, rated at 50mph. A couple of miles south there's a cross street that's two lanes each way, rated at 40mph. The slower road has fewer stop signs and lights than the faster road, and about the same number of neighborhood entrances. There's no obvious reason for the better road to be marked slower.
Better yet, start off with two identical players and do the double-blind test *before* modding either of them. You'd still want to tell the test subjects that one player is enhanced, and ask them to pick which one.
After the modding, run the same test and see if the test subjects still pick the same player as their favourite.
Does the "the advise and consent" clause include any kind of retribution if the President decides to totally ignore the advice and do what he damn well pleases?? Impeachment, maybe??
On the other hand, if what Chip says about their illegal practices is accurate, you'd think the company lawyers would have wanted to keep things quiet. At least until a sanitized version of the source code could be worked up...
Given what Chuck's accusing the company of, I'm surprised they'd be so apparently willing to let it be dragged into court. It doesn't really matter whether he has the money for a long legal battle, once those accusations become general knowledge, the company is going to face some tough questions from people that can shut them down.
Yes, it's a crying shame that Chuck's being victimised, and I'm not in any way condoning that. I'm just pointing out that the company have screwed *themselves* over by making such a big fuss. That letter names names - both the principal offenders *and* several victims (Washington State & Montana) and hopefully that's a juggernaut that will roll right over HMS and grind them flat.
blockquote> We'll see if any of the computers come back formatted.
Formatting may be the least of his problems. If they really want to screw him over, they'll "find" something nasty, like kiddie pr0n, and he won't be able to prove it was put there *after* the computers left his control.
You know, you just have to wonder, what is it about that river that makes it home to more species of giant fish than any other river?? And is it actually safe to eat these monster fish??
Remember that famous quote about the Internet treating a nuclear strike as routing errors and simply routing around it?? The same applies here - if US control of the root DNS becomes a problem to the rest of the world, expect the rest of the world to set up their own root servers and then the US-controlled Internet becomes an Intranet that may or may not have visibility to the rest of the world.
So you don't think the zombie network owners would be interested in making a few bucks by running "click fraud" campaigns?? I'm thinking specifically of the zombie networks owned by mass mailers - what they're doing isn't all that different, really...
Right on! You might as well try to sue the President for "failing to prevent terrorism", or Boeing for "failing to prevent people hijacking airplanes"...
Somebody with access to a large collection of zombie PCs wouldn't even all be coming from the same subnets/networks.
I'd imagine that one trick to combat such would be to "rate" the attractiveness of the ad - i.e. Google staff acting as an "average Joe" looking at the ad and estimating how attractive it is as a guide to how often they'd expect it to be clicked. Any ad getting *much* higher traffic should be looked at more closely to see if: a) they underestimated it; b) it's a "click fraud" target.
Forget blood flow - according to TFA it's reading the vein pattern in infrared, so unless the hand is really, really fresh, it ain't gonna have the same print. Just keeping it warm won't work, because that'll be warm-all-over, not a warm-vein-pattern. I suppose the would-be hand-thief could drag along one of those artificial heart machines and hook it up to the severed wrist, but even that would be difficult to get right...
That's why I'm happy that work finally provided me with a nice, shiny, new Precision M60 laptop last year. It came with this mandate: "take this thing home - do not leave it on your desk at night". They even provided a rather nice backpack to carry it in.
That'll never happen, or if it does, it'll get reversed real quick. Windows File Share allows searching a shared filesystem on the remote computer, does it not?? I'm sure Microsoft will lean on anyone prosecuting based on "silent promotion".
Being on the right side of things doesnt matter anymore.
That's true right up until a significant number of voters are"detained". Every election, a number of politicians win or lose with a relatively small margin. If they started seeing large numbers of voters being "detained" in their constituencies, enough voters to swing their particular one way or the other, then you can expect to see some kind of action.
This is how "grass roots" campaigns get results - get a bunch of people riled up about something and politicians fall over themselves to grab the votes those people represent. Sure, they love the money they get for protecting corporate interests, but without the popular vote, they don't get the money or the power.
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Perhaps of more importance, how does the discovery of many more stars, planets and galaxies fuck up those charts??
Disclaimer: probably illegal in most states, but who make a complaint when they'd have to incriminate themselves to do so??
Forget picking on the rest of the world, this idiot is picking on the Military. There are plenty of stealth organizations in various different country's that could make him disappear if he got up their collective noses...
No, that's apparently a quote from the TTABlog, which may be directly quoting the original letter.
- Sentra
- Intruder
- Stradivarius
- Turbojet
- Checkmate
- Airframe
Fable
- Torrent
- Aerospace
- Star Light
- Terminator
- Ambush
I bet they don't try to enforce "Ambush", though - military forces all over the world must have substantially more firepower than any vexatious litigator. Should be interesting watching him track down any number of terrorists (sorry, "freedom fighters") that "ambush" occupation forces and innocent civilians.BTW: the Famous Marks page looks like real crap. Some images don't load and the ones that do look like a four-year-old got loose with a paintbox
Now *that* depends on how much you've been drinking - mt reaction time is much better after a couple of beers.
Seems that way to me too. The road running near my house is single-lane each way, rated at 50mph. A couple of miles south there's a cross street that's two lanes each way, rated at 40mph. The slower road has fewer stop signs and lights than the faster road, and about the same number of neighborhood entrances. There's no obvious reason for the better road to be marked slower.
No, I'd say you'd have ten copies that you yourself could listen to over the next 7 days...
After the modding, run the same test and see if the test subjects still pick the same player as their favourite.
Isn't it not so much banning Burning, as banning Desecration of the flag?? In which case, this guy is gonna be in trouble...
Does the "the advise and consent" clause include any kind of retribution if the President decides to totally ignore the advice and do what he damn well pleases?? Impeachment, maybe??
On the other hand, if what Chip says about their illegal practices is accurate, you'd think the company lawyers would have wanted to keep things quiet. At least until a sanitized version of the source code could be worked up...
Yes, it's a crying shame that Chuck's being victimised, and I'm not in any way condoning that. I'm just pointing out that the company have screwed *themselves* over by making such a big fuss. That letter names names - both the principal offenders *and* several victims (Washington State & Montana) and hopefully that's a juggernaut that will roll right over HMS and grind them flat.
Formatting may be the least of his problems. If they really want to screw him over, they'll "find" something nasty, like kiddie pr0n, and he won't be able to prove it was put there *after* the computers left his control.
You know, you just have to wonder, what is it about that river that makes it home to more species of giant fish than any other river ?? And is it actually safe to eat these monster fish??
Remember that famous quote about the Internet treating a nuclear strike as routing errors and simply routing around it?? The same applies here - if US control of the root DNS becomes a problem to the rest of the world, expect the rest of the world to set up their own root servers and then the US-controlled Internet becomes an Intranet that may or may not have visibility to the rest of the world.
So you don't think the zombie network owners would be interested in making a few bucks by running "click fraud" campaigns?? I'm thinking specifically of the zombie networks owned by mass mailers - what they're doing isn't all that different, really...
Right on! You might as well try to sue the President for "failing to prevent terrorism", or Boeing for "failing to prevent people hijacking airplanes"...
Does Sears actually do any business in a country more sue-happy than America?? Come to think of it, *is* there a country more sue-happy than America??
I'd imagine that one trick to combat such would be to "rate" the attractiveness of the ad - i.e. Google staff acting as an "average Joe" looking at the ad and estimating how attractive it is as a guide to how often they'd expect it to be clicked. Any ad getting *much* higher traffic should be looked at more closely to see if: a) they underestimated it; b) it's a "click fraud" target.
Yeah. That was what was being referred to in the Interesting turnaround link right at the end of the summary....
Forget blood flow - according to TFA it's reading the vein pattern in infrared, so unless the hand is really, really fresh, it ain't gonna have the same print. Just keeping it warm won't work, because that'll be warm-all-over, not a warm-vein-pattern. I suppose the would-be hand-thief could drag along one of those artificial heart machines and hook it up to the severed wrist, but even that would be difficult to get right...
That's why I'm happy that work finally provided me with a nice, shiny, new Precision M60 laptop last year. It came with this mandate: "take this thing home - do not leave it on your desk at night". They even provided a rather nice backpack to carry it in.
That'll never happen, or if it does, it'll get reversed real quick. Windows File Share allows searching a shared filesystem on the remote computer, does it not?? I'm sure Microsoft will lean on anyone prosecuting based on "silent promotion".
That's true right up until a significant number of voters are"detained". Every election, a number of politicians win or lose with a relatively small margin. If they started seeing large numbers of voters being "detained" in their constituencies, enough voters to swing their particular one way or the other, then you can expect to see some kind of action.
This is how "grass roots" campaigns get results - get a bunch of people riled up about something and politicians fall over themselves to grab the votes those people represent. Sure, they love the money they get for protecting corporate interests, but without the popular vote, they don't get the money or the power.