Hmm. I believe the book was about a relationship with an underage girl, but the general term refers to a girl who has reached aged of consent very recently, and still appears young. This seems to jive with the definition in wikipedia, so it would seem to be that the term doesn't actually refer to anything illegal.
I wonder what the "suspicious" links were. If they were in a bunch of other porn, was it something like "Hot teen action" (could still be legal if 18/19), "barely legals", "schoolgirl" porn (which could mean uniforms/dressup, possibly college), small-tit porn, etc..
If it was saying "underage girlz 11yr old" then it's pretty obvious, but "suspicious" doesn't seem to mean definitely KP.
Long long ago when I still used windows+IE, I seem to remember various sites which somehow managed to add things to my favs as well, even though I hadn't chosen to do so. So who knows.
That works fine in the "surprise, you're fired!" (or not re-hired) situation. But not so much in the case where the worker knows it's coming. This can be many cases of (masculine gender used for simplicity):
The worker is the one to leave. He hates his boss/job/life and a few weeks before handing in his notice he sabotages key systems.
The worker knows his contract is almost up, and is likely to not be renewed
The worker has seen many others being "let go" in similar positions and feels the winds of unpleasant change.
The worker has already had a pre-firing "talk with the boss" and knows they're not happy with him, and that termination is likely upcoming
etc etc
There are plenty of cases where termination is foreseeable, so an unhappy work has plenty of time to do something bad. Heck, in the case of TFA he'd already stolen a co-worker's credentials, so disabling his account is useless.
And let us not forget John Rhys Davies, who - in addition to being on many geek-popular shows - has done voice acting for various animated programmes and video games including Wing Commander, Freelancer, etc
And in some sense it may still be "incomplete" content. Perhaps they had the game base up, and while testing or whatever is going on they also have some "expansion" content being developed. It's not fully done, but they're fairly sure of much of it (say, the graphics or whatever), but there are still some bugs in the AI scripting, whatever.
The core game is done, but you don't want to release the extra bits yet because they haven't been tested. So you segregate them from the game, but keep the files on disk so that only the last few pieces - maybe a patch or whatever - need to be applied to make it usable and ready for sale.
I haven't played BS2 so I don't really know all of what's in this pack, but really if the game is fully playable through to a definitive end-of-plot, then I don't see what the big deal is. Either I'm willing to shell out a few bucks for a bit more - however it happens to be packaged/delivered - or I'm not. Now if the content is cut from the game itself so that it's noticeably incomplete, that's different, but it doesn't seem to say whether this is the case or not.
Congrats to NewEgg on getting onto this quickly. I'm in Canada and they haven't had a presence here for that long, but I've been fairly happy with their service, especially compared to some competitors (yes, I'm looking at you, TigerDirect).
This action will keep them at the top of my A-list. Even if they aren't always the cheapest, customer service has value too!
From my understanding, the milestones up to now were the "GSM" version, whereas the Droid was using the networks specific to certain US providers. The milestone also has a few other differences, such as how to flash it and the security restrictions against jailbreak patches (still doable, though).
In Canada, my understanding is that Telus is coming out with a Milestone that does do 3G here, but the European models (only ones available up to recent) don't do the local frequencies.
In other news, the battery life is good. The screen resolution is incredible. The google integration is awesome if you're a google fan (sync contacts over-the-air with gmail accounts), and it is nice to have a removable battery. Oh, and the slide-out keyboard is a bit small but works well enough.
"I just got screwed buying an unlicenced cable because I didn't think charging CAD $55 was a reasonable price for a $3 output cable; turns out you either pay the piper or live without, because Apple (and their licencees) all chip their accessories now and the iPhone won't work without detecting one"
Exactly what kind of cable is this, and which device? I have an iphone 3G, and it works fine with my bought-from-Hong-Kong-Ebay-Seller cables, as did my friend's 3Gs. It charges fine, and allows USB connections for transferring data, syncing, or flashing the phone. Maybe you just got a broken cable? I know that in my lot of 5, one of them had a loose connection.
As for the N900... I have a Milestone (motorola), which is essentially in the same basket for 3G since it only supports the European frequences and thus is edge-only here (plus you have to manually enter your APN the first time, but you can find those online). Running on Edge isn't too bad though - if I actually need to do something like downloading over 1-2MB, wifi is usually nearby - and getting past the hassles of the irritating on-screen keyboard, unchangable batteries, mediocre battery life and etc of my iPhone is worth it. The iPhone now does well as a fancy Mp3 player with wifi for downloads, but then it always somewhat sucked as a phone anyhow.
Perhaps what we really need are phones that all allow tethering on data, and the ability to hook up the extra stuff (like ipods, PDA's or Mp3 players) via USB when you need to download a tune or app on the run.
I tend to find them a lot in keygens and cracks. Which is why though I usually run my games in windows, I run the keygens in 'nix and print out the serials.
Actually, when you think about it, a lot of hacking/cracking has become more like the movies. You end up with fancy GUI tools that any script-kiddy who's willing to pay $19.99 can use. Heck, keygens have had sappy demoscene SID-tunes and fancy effects for ages.
Even sysadmin tools are becoming a bit more TV-esque, and my Linux Desktop is certainly filled with more "omg effectzors" than years ago. Yes, I still use a terminal very regularly, but in some cases the GUI tools are pretty damn good too.
The current ones or the previous ones. Not that the predecessors didn't have their issues, but many did seem to have a set a values that have woefully been forgotten in these days.
The key is you are using a system that is not owned by you.
No, but you are allowed security and privacy within your home, and having a work or school owned-laptop does not voice this right. If the student had brought the laptop to school and they did forensics on the hard drive, that's one thing. It's a far cry from actively spying on the student via a webcam in his/her home. There's plenty of ways to monitor THE EQUIPMENT without spying on THE USER. Big difference. If it was a computer/laptop in the school itself that's also a bit of a different issue, as the expectation of privacy is the same as if a staff member could walk into the room at a given time.
If the school wants to go after the student for violating the AUP, they can feel free so long as it's not a fruit-of-the-poison-vine issue. That's a separate issue from the school violating the students' privacy. Certainly AUP's and EULA's etc don't automatically voice your rights in all other areas, though you can be held accountable for the violation of the AUP itself depending on the circumstances and whether the AUP itself was legally legitimate.
Seems to be more of you guys around here lately, or perhaps you're just more visible since IP law and IT ran into each other somewhere along the information highway.
It's nice to see people educated in walks-of-life close to current topics, who aren't afraid to speak up on slash, as opposed to the usual people who may be (or think they are) educated but really have little experience or background in the actual subject-at-hand.
And what kind of IT admins do they have that they'd agree to set this sort of shit up? Seriously, if my boss asked me to do something so blatently illegal like this, I'd be talking to a lawyer and likely to the cops.
My buddy has one of these for his kids. He raves about how good it is for long car-rides because it allows them to watch movies etc on the DS (which has pretty decent battery life) and keeps the entertained.
As my boy's friends often trade and/or lose games, one of these would also be useful in that case (R4 stays in the DS with all the applicable games, not allowed out. Heck you could glue it in and just swap miniSD cards as needed).
One of the more recent things I heard about ME2 was that it required you tie the game to your EA account, even on the 360. Maybe I heard incorrectly but that's been one of the major reasons I haven't bought this game. I got ME1 as a second-hand purchase, but I refuse to buy and game that's going to lock me in so that I can't resell the damn thing or lend it to a friend, etc.
Please correct me if I heard wrong, because it does sound like a good game, just with evil DRM.
Like even USING the damn phone on the network of my choice. Mine was network-locked before being hacked, so whenever I upgrade the firmware I need to rehack it to unlock the baseband. Other things that probably *REALLY* piss off apple are awesome apps like Cycorder, I think that initially you had to get a 3Gs to record video (although I believe there's app-store stuff for that now), cycorder worked from day 1.
Ah well, my Milestone is in the mail. Screw you Apple you're not getting my business anymore.
Well in this case the games are in BC, Canada. The local power company is "BC Hydro," thusly named because a large portion of power they produce comes from hydroelectric dams.
What I wonder is why the heck KS would be flying standby. Was he late in booking or something? It's not like he should lack funds to pay for a flight and had to go with the cheaper option...
Maybe they're just waiting for the radioactivity to reach a high enough level that it will give them super-powers. Then they can deal with this and many other injustices in the world...
Contract? Seriously, other than the usual I-give-you-money-and-you-give-me-functional-product contact inherent in a sale, there should NOT be a contract. This goes a bit further into the area of affiliate "loyalty" programs, but they're still dealing with what are essentially hidden contracts.
So unless you want it to be permissible for the local supermarket to sell your CC# to "Loyalty Agency X" the next time you use a discount coupon to save $0.25 on your next roll of ass-wipe paper, then perhaps you SHOULD be concern.
There aren't too-good-to-be-true deals, they purport to be much the same as loyalty card (you know, the ones you probably already have from your local grocery store, gas bar, movie theatre, etc). The concept of "shop with us a lot and get discounts" or even "shop with our affiliates a lot and get discounts" (while the loyalty provided gets a small cut and you may still save a bit) are NOT new, and not in the line of too-good-to-be-true. Those were often honest everyone-benefits type deals where the companies got a bit more business, the advertiser got a small cut, and the customer got a small discount. The problem is that online it becomes extremely easy to hide extra details such as hidden charges, or hidden recurring charges, amongst a polluted page of "details" or several pages of such.
This is especially an issue if you look at the retailers involved. Video games, office supplies, flowers, movies, and even fricking pizza. Do you really want to have to check 10 pages of fine print for the scam every time you save $5 on a extra-large supreme? Give me a break.
Doom as a general game as cool. Doom as a multiplayer/deathmatch game was freaking incredible at the time. While the whole "pixel 3d" theme may not have been new, I don't recall any other games of the like that were LAN'able or could be played on a 9600 baud modem.
unless you've never used electricity from a utility company which received public grants or subsidies for construction, you've never used public roads, public transportation, or public sidewalks to get to work, and you've never used the United States Postal Service.
Uh, except that people are PAYING to use all of those, not the government paying them. Nice analogy, but it's a little backwards.
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Hmm. I believe the book was about a relationship with an underage girl, but the general term refers to a girl who has reached aged of consent very recently, and still appears young. This seems to jive with the definition in wikipedia, so it would seem to be that the term doesn't actually refer to anything illegal.
I wonder what the "suspicious" links were. If they were in a bunch of other porn, was it something like "Hot teen action" (could still be legal if 18/19), "barely legals", "schoolgirl" porn (which could mean uniforms/dressup, possibly college), small-tit porn, etc..
If it was saying "underage girlz 11yr old" then it's pretty obvious, but "suspicious" doesn't seem to mean definitely KP.
Long long ago when I still used windows+IE, I seem to remember various sites which somehow managed to add things to my favs as well, even though I hadn't chosen to do so. So who knows.
That works fine in the "surprise, you're fired!" (or not re-hired) situation. But not so much in the case where the worker knows it's coming. This can be many cases of (masculine gender used for simplicity):
The worker is the one to leave. He hates his boss/job/life and a few weeks before handing in his notice he sabotages key systems.
The worker knows his contract is almost up, and is likely to not be renewed
The worker has seen many others being "let go" in similar positions and feels the winds of unpleasant change.
The worker has already had a pre-firing "talk with the boss" and knows they're not happy with him, and that termination is likely upcoming
etc etc
There are plenty of cases where termination is foreseeable, so an unhappy work has plenty of time to do something bad. Heck, in the case of TFA he'd already stolen a co-worker's credentials, so disabling his account is useless.
And let us not forget John Rhys Davies, who - in addition to being on many geek-popular shows - has done voice acting for various animated programmes and video games including Wing Commander, Freelancer, etc
And in some sense it may still be "incomplete" content. Perhaps they had the game base up, and while testing or whatever is going on they also have some "expansion" content being developed. It's not fully done, but they're fairly sure of much of it (say, the graphics or whatever), but there are still some bugs in the AI scripting, whatever.
The core game is done, but you don't want to release the extra bits yet because they haven't been tested. So you segregate them from the game, but keep the files on disk so that only the last few pieces - maybe a patch or whatever - need to be applied to make it usable and ready for sale.
I haven't played BS2 so I don't really know all of what's in this pack, but really if the game is fully playable through to a definitive end-of-plot, then I don't see what the big deal is. Either I'm willing to shell out a few bucks for a bit more - however it happens to be packaged/delivered - or I'm not. Now if the content is cut from the game itself so that it's noticeably incomplete, that's different, but it doesn't seem to say whether this is the case or not.
Congrats to NewEgg on getting onto this quickly. I'm in Canada and they haven't had a presence here for that long, but I've been fairly happy with their service, especially compared to some competitors (yes, I'm looking at you, TigerDirect).
This action will keep them at the top of my A-list. Even if they aren't always the cheapest, customer service has value too!
From my understanding, the milestones up to now were the "GSM" version, whereas the Droid was using the networks specific to certain US providers. The milestone also has a few other differences, such as how to flash it and the security restrictions against jailbreak patches (still doable, though).
In Canada, my understanding is that Telus is coming out with a Milestone that does do 3G here, but the European models (only ones available up to recent) don't do the local frequencies.
In other news, the battery life is good. The screen resolution is incredible. The google integration is awesome if you're a google fan (sync contacts over-the-air with gmail accounts), and it is nice to have a removable battery. Oh, and the slide-out keyboard is a bit small but works well enough.
"I just got screwed buying an unlicenced cable because I didn't think charging CAD $55 was a reasonable price for a $3 output cable; turns out you either pay the piper or live without, because Apple (and their licencees) all chip their accessories now and the iPhone won't work without detecting one"
Exactly what kind of cable is this, and which device? I have an iphone 3G, and it works fine with my bought-from-Hong-Kong-Ebay-Seller cables, as did my friend's 3Gs. It charges fine, and allows USB connections for transferring data, syncing, or flashing the phone.
Maybe you just got a broken cable? I know that in my lot of 5, one of them had a loose connection.
As for the N900... I have a Milestone (motorola), which is essentially in the same basket for 3G since it only supports the European frequences and thus is edge-only here (plus you have to manually enter your APN the first time, but you can find those online). Running on Edge isn't too bad though - if I actually need to do something like downloading over 1-2MB, wifi is usually nearby - and getting past the hassles of the irritating on-screen keyboard, unchangable batteries, mediocre battery life and etc of my iPhone is worth it. The iPhone now does well as a fancy Mp3 player with wifi for downloads, but then it always somewhat sucked as a phone anyhow.
Perhaps what we really need are phones that all allow tethering on data, and the ability to hook up the extra stuff (like ipods, PDA's or Mp3 players) via USB when you need to download a tune or app on the run.
Pay little attention to the AC, the botnet on his computer is posting on slashdot right now...
Or, on a variety of less expensive locks (and often some more costly ones), they could just use a bump-key.
I tend to find them a lot in keygens and cracks. Which is why though I usually run my games in windows, I run the keygens in 'nix and print out the serials.
Actually, when you think about it, a lot of hacking/cracking has become more like the movies. You end up with fancy GUI tools that any script-kiddy who's willing to pay $19.99 can use. Heck, keygens have had sappy demoscene SID-tunes and fancy effects for ages.
Even sysadmin tools are becoming a bit more TV-esque, and my Linux Desktop is certainly filled with more "omg effectzors" than years ago. Yes, I still use a terminal very regularly, but in some cases the GUI tools are pretty damn good too.
The current ones or the previous ones. Not that the predecessors didn't have their issues, but many did seem to have a set a values that have woefully been forgotten in these days.
The key is you are using a system that is not owned by you.
No, but you are allowed security and privacy within your home, and having a work or school owned-laptop does not voice this right. If the student had brought the laptop to school and they did forensics on the hard drive, that's one thing. It's a far cry from actively spying on the student via a webcam in his/her home. There's plenty of ways to monitor THE EQUIPMENT without spying on THE USER. Big difference. If it was a computer/laptop in the school itself that's also a bit of a different issue, as the expectation of privacy is the same as if a staff member could walk into the room at a given time.
If the school wants to go after the student for violating the AUP, they can feel free so long as it's not a fruit-of-the-poison-vine issue. That's a separate issue from the school violating the students' privacy. Certainly AUP's and EULA's etc don't automatically voice your rights in all other areas, though you can be held accountable for the violation of the AUP itself depending on the circumstances and whether the AUP itself was legally legitimate.
"(IAAL, and I am an IP lawyer)"
Seems to be more of you guys around here lately, or perhaps you're just more visible since IP law and IT ran into each other somewhere along the information highway.
It's nice to see people educated in walks-of-life close to current topics, who aren't afraid to speak up on slash, as opposed to the usual people who may be (or think they are) educated but really have little experience or background in the actual subject-at-hand.
And what kind of IT admins do they have that they'd agree to set this sort of shit up? Seriously, if my boss asked me to do something so blatently illegal like this, I'd be talking to a lawyer and likely to the cops.
My buddy has one of these for his kids. He raves about how good it is for long car-rides because it allows them to watch movies etc on the DS (which has pretty decent battery life) and keeps the entertained.
As my boy's friends often trade and/or lose games, one of these would also be useful in that case (R4 stays in the DS with all the applicable games, not allowed out. Heck you could glue it in and just swap miniSD cards as needed).
One of the more recent things I heard about ME2 was that it required you tie the game to your EA account, even on the 360. Maybe I heard incorrectly but that's been one of the major reasons I haven't bought this game. I got ME1 as a second-hand purchase, but I refuse to buy and game that's going to lock me in so that I can't resell the damn thing or lend it to a friend, etc.
Please correct me if I heard wrong, because it does sound like a good game, just with evil DRM.
Like even USING the damn phone on the network of my choice. Mine was network-locked before being hacked, so whenever I upgrade the firmware I need to rehack it to unlock the baseband.
Other things that probably *REALLY* piss off apple are awesome apps like Cycorder, I think that initially you had to get a 3Gs to record video (although I believe there's app-store stuff for that now), cycorder worked from day 1.
Ah well, my Milestone is in the mail. Screw you Apple you're not getting my business anymore.
Well in this case the games are in BC, Canada. The local power company is "BC Hydro," thusly named because a large portion of power they produce comes from hydroelectric dams.
What I wonder is why the heck KS would be flying standby. Was he late in booking or something? It's not like he should lack funds to pay for a flight and had to go with the cheaper option...
Maybe they're just waiting for the radioactivity to reach a high enough level that it will give them super-powers. Then they can deal with this and many other injustices in the world...
Contract? Seriously, other than the usual I-give-you-money-and-you-give-me-functional-product contact inherent in a sale, there should NOT be a contract.
This goes a bit further into the area of affiliate "loyalty" programs, but they're still dealing with what are essentially hidden contracts.
So unless you want it to be permissible for the local supermarket to sell your CC# to "Loyalty Agency X" the next time you use a discount coupon to save $0.25 on your next roll of ass-wipe paper, then perhaps you SHOULD be concern.
There aren't too-good-to-be-true deals, they purport to be much the same as loyalty card (you know, the ones you probably already have from your local grocery store, gas bar, movie theatre, etc). The concept of "shop with us a lot and get discounts" or even "shop with our affiliates a lot and get discounts" (while the loyalty provided gets a small cut and you may still save a bit) are NOT new, and not in the line of too-good-to-be-true. Those were often honest everyone-benefits type deals where the companies got a bit more business, the advertiser got a small cut, and the customer got a small discount. The problem is that online it becomes extremely easy to hide extra details such as hidden charges, or hidden recurring charges, amongst a polluted page of "details" or several pages of such.
This is especially an issue if you look at the retailers involved. Video games, office supplies, flowers, movies, and even fricking pizza. Do you really want to have to check 10 pages of fine print for the scam every time you save $5 on a extra-large supreme? Give me a break.
Doom as a general game as cool. Doom as a multiplayer/deathmatch game was freaking incredible at the time.
While the whole "pixel 3d" theme may not have been new, I don't recall any other games of the like that were LAN'able or could be played on a 9600 baud modem.
Maybe there were some, but I don't remember any.
unless you've never used electricity from a utility company which received public grants or subsidies for construction, you've never used public roads, public transportation, or public sidewalks to get to work, and you've never used the United States Postal Service.
Uh, except that people are PAYING to use all of those, not the government paying them. Nice analogy, but it's a little backwards.