"maybe-underage girls" reminds me of an old joke I heard once.
A cop is driving his beat when he sees a car parked in a location commonly used by young couples for various forms of irresponsible behavior. He pulls up beside it, and walks up, and taps on the window.
Rather than finding the occupants engaged in anything untoward, he finds a man with a magazine and a young woman with a spool of yarn.
He asks the young man: "What are you two doing up here tonight."
The young man replies: "Well, I'm catching up on the financial times, and she's knitting a sweater."
The cop is a bit confused by this, but follows through with another standard question:
"And how old are the both of you."
The young man replies rather glibly: "Well, I'm 25, and in about 15 minutes from now she'll be 18"
My question would be: what if the age of the girls themselves is in question. Does that mean that the jury has to review a ton of nasty pictures and make the assessment, or is the testimony of an "export" good enough?
Jury duty in those cases would really suck. But then again jury duty on any cases involving kids as victims probably isn't very pleasant.
The question of whom generated the illegal content then becomes an issue in my mind. Seems that there were at least three other people who have likely had access to the computer (Landlord, Sell, Hipple). So what's to say one of them wasn't downloading illegal content.
Moreover, let's say that the landlord has long-standing issues with the computer's owner (heck, I don't think you can just *seize* property anyways without a court order???), so he gets Sell or Hipple to plant a little "evidence" against his disliked tenant and then call it in.
Many popular (but apparently poorly designed) job-search sites do not work with PDF. Doc files only. Moreover, 90% of the recruiters I've talked initially request.doc, and at least half that didn't ask for a.doc after I've sent the initial PDF. It seems that the employers/recruiters like to be able to add their own notes to the resume. These days I send both, with the added note of "PDF version included as the.DOC file may not render as intended on all versions of word" (and it doesn't... I've seen it do weird things on computers other than mine even when I've edited resumes in MSOffice rather than OO.
Been awhile since I've tried it with Nvidia (plenty of machines with NV cards, but not with NV cards and two monitors), but with the ATI card it was pretty easy. The little manager icon it adds to your "K" menu (I use KDE) worked nicely. With my laptop I just tell it to add a new screen... in expansion mode... to the left of my current screen, just a few clicks needed.
My work machine also has dual monitors, which work but I've noticed two points of weirdness which seem related to GL or the ATI card itself:
a) Icons and window shades tend to get all-black borders at times, and look asstastic.
b) When coming out of "lock" mode with a GL screensaver, the lock dialog is hidden behind the paused screensaver so I can't actually see if it's working.
I really do wonder why people are so down on ClamAV. What it really seems to lack is a realtime scanning/firewall component, but I've found those tend to be the main reason a lot of other A/V's screw up or slow down systems/internet-connections.
In terms of catching virii, I've actually had really good success with ClamAV, and managed to nuke a bunch that others (including Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, and AVG) didn't. Half the time the big guys seem to be the first thing that gets killed by a virus anyhow, whereas ClamAV can happily run as an app, to identify and often clean the infected files.
Because piracy is not proper an alternative to purchasing. Not buying is a good alternative. Pirating a game - especially one that's available in a convenient form at a more-than-reasonable price - just proves that really no matter what argument you use, you're just a cheap loser who doesn't want to shell out cash and has to come up with stupid arguments to justify your behavior.
Buying on eBay is another story, but really I doubt the prices on there are much better than most of the games on this site.
Uh... no, you don't actually *NEED* a rationale to pay for something. It comes with a price-tag, which, if it's within your means, you pay.
I assume you're stating the alternative as "piracy" but frankly I think you've got your wires crossed as the whole "well the publishers don't get any money anyhow" is simply a thin argument *for* piracy (as opposed to against purchasing).
Besides, perhaps looking back at what made these games good will make current publishers produce games that don't suck.
I don't have a Wii, some I'm not sure how it works (but I was considering getting one for the boy... ok... any myself.. for Xmas) so I was wondering:
Do they block accounts with "hacked" consoles, or do they just keep you off until you update?
Sometime back I bought a used Xbox. It was able to get on live so assumedly was unmodified, but it appears that now it's actually hacked in a way that XBL can't detect. However, after going through the "it's modified and thus blocked FOREVER" issues with MS, I'm always worried it'll eventually get knocked offline. I'd rather not buy a wii and suffer the same issues, so what's Nintendo's practice in this area?
However the judge here specifically identified that we should treat his 'game account stuff' as the same as 'his real property'.
In this case it was probably applicable, similar to how if somebody beat your for your PIN # and drained your debit account (assault, theft, etc).
There are plenty of virtual holdings that have no physical assets, but still have a value to the owner. How about websites? If I happen to have a high-profile and profitable.com and somebody beats me into performing a transfer of the WHOIS record.
Intent and situations can play a role in these things, and in this case it was a physical assault with intent to deprive the owner of property. Whether that property is physical/virtual, the owner still lost it. Personally, I think a short stint of community service is a pretty lenient punishment for assault and theft. I'm hoping that Runescape permabanned their accounts, too...
However, this isn't about the parent company taking away assets though, it's about a bunch of asshole kids beating and threatening another kid to take something away from him. Seems to me that - regardless of *why* they did it, they deserve a harsher punishment than they got.
Well, one thing they do generally have in common is RIAA or related contracts, so I suppose that could be construed as an affiliation with the Devil, yes...
To run chips cooler, you have to slow them (do not want) or to undervolt them.
The "undervolt" option would fall in the efficiency category. The trick would be to make them perform at the same level (in terms of operations processed/time) while supplying less voltage. As it often seems that CPU makers tends towards "how can we crunch out more 'power' regardless of consumption before meltdown" as opposed to "how can we do the same amount of work in a similar amount of time with less power consumption," that would seem better.
I don't see how lowering the power requirements of a chip reduces thermal tolerance, though.
Slashdot Mirror
What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Any site, make it plural
slashdot.org.s
facebook.s
hot.girl.s
naked.chick.s
etc
Sounds like it could easily be abused by domain squatters.
How do these sound:
www.micro.soft
www.goog.le
...
www.face.book
"maybe-underage girls" reminds me of an old joke I heard once.
A cop is driving his beat when he sees a car parked in a location commonly used by young couples for various forms of irresponsible behavior. He pulls up beside it, and walks up, and taps on the window.
Rather than finding the occupants engaged in anything untoward, he finds a man with a magazine and a young woman with a spool of yarn.
He asks the young man: "What are you two doing up here tonight."
The young man replies: "Well, I'm catching up on the financial times, and she's knitting a sweater."
The cop is a bit confused by this, but follows through with another standard question:
"And how old are the both of you."
The young man replies rather glibly: "Well, I'm 25, and in about 15 minutes from now she'll be 18"
My question would be: what if the age of the girls themselves is in question. Does that mean that the jury has to review a ton of nasty pictures and make the assessment, or is the testimony of an "export" good enough?
Jury duty in those cases would really suck. But then again jury duty on any cases involving kids as victims probably isn't very pleasant.
The question of whom generated the illegal content then becomes an issue in my mind. Seems that there were at least three other people who have likely had access to the computer (Landlord, Sell, Hipple). So what's to say one of them wasn't downloading illegal content.
Moreover, let's say that the landlord has long-standing issues with the computer's owner (heck, I don't think you can just *seize* property anyways without a court order???), so he gets Sell or Hipple to plant a little "evidence" against his disliked tenant and then call it in.
Slower CPU to process it, but lots of useful information in the old grey-matter database? :-)
Many popular (but apparently poorly designed) job-search sites do not work with PDF. Doc files only. Moreover, 90% of the recruiters I've talked initially request .doc, and at least half that didn't ask for a .doc after I've sent the initial PDF. It seems that the employers/recruiters like to be able to add their own notes to the resume. These days I send both, with the added note of "PDF version included as the .DOC file may not render as intended on all versions of word" (and it doesn't... I've seen it do weird things on computers other than mine even when I've edited resumes in MSOffice rather than OO.
Just use truecrypt
Not sure about others, but I've never had much luck getting it to compile on either Debian or Ubuntu...
Been awhile since I've tried it with Nvidia (plenty of machines with NV cards, but not with NV cards and two monitors), but with the ATI card it was pretty easy. The little manager icon it adds to your "K" menu (I use KDE) worked nicely. With my laptop I just tell it to add a new screen... in expansion mode... to the left of my current screen, just a few clicks needed.
My work machine also has dual monitors, which work but I've noticed two points of weirdness which seem related to GL or the ATI card itself:
a) Icons and window shades tend to get all-black borders at times, and look asstastic.
b) When coming out of "lock" mode with a GL screensaver, the lock dialog is hidden behind the paused screensaver so I can't actually see if it's working.
I really do wonder why people are so down on ClamAV. What it really seems to lack is a realtime scanning/firewall component, but I've found those tend to be the main reason a lot of other A/V's screw up or slow down systems/internet-connections.
In terms of catching virii, I've actually had really good success with ClamAV, and managed to nuke a bunch that others (including Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, and AVG) didn't. Half the time the big guys seem to be the first thing that gets killed by a virus anyhow, whereas ClamAV can happily run as an app, to identify and often clean the infected files.
Because piracy is not proper an alternative to purchasing. Not buying is a good alternative. Pirating a game - especially one that's available in a convenient form at a more-than-reasonable price - just proves that really no matter what argument you use, you're just a cheap loser who doesn't want to shell out cash and has to come up with stupid arguments to justify your behavior.
Buying on eBay is another story, but really I doubt the prices on there are much better than most of the games on this site.
Uh... no, you don't actually *NEED* a rationale to pay for something. It comes with a price-tag, which, if it's within your means, you pay.
I assume you're stating the alternative as "piracy" but frankly I think you've got your wires crossed as the whole "well the publishers don't get any money anyhow" is simply a thin argument *for* piracy (as opposed to against purchasing).
Besides, perhaps looking back at what made these games good will make current publishers produce games that don't suck.
Don't worry, we Canadians remember the way to the white house. :-)
The unborn? I'd imagine that it's interpreted as:
Unborn=not alive=not a person yet...
Therefore, not falling under the "No person" part of that paragraph.
Nothing was transferred from one person to another in these examples, physical or otherwise.
I don't have a Wii, some I'm not sure how it works (but I was considering getting one for the boy ... ok... any myself .. for Xmas) so I was wondering:
Do they block accounts with "hacked" consoles, or do they just keep you off until you update?
Sometime back I bought a used Xbox. It was able to get on live so assumedly was unmodified, but it appears that now it's actually hacked in a way that XBL can't detect. However, after going through the "it's modified and thus blocked FOREVER" issues with MS, I'm always worried it'll eventually get knocked offline. I'd rather not buy a wii and suffer the same issues, so what's Nintendo's practice in this area?
However the judge here specifically identified that we should treat his 'game account stuff' as the same as 'his real property'.
In this case it was probably applicable, similar to how if somebody beat your for your PIN # and drained your debit account (assault, theft, etc).
There are plenty of virtual holdings that have no physical assets, but still have a value to the owner. How about websites? If I happen to have a high-profile and profitable .com and somebody beats me into performing a transfer of the WHOIS record.
Intent and situations can play a role in these things, and in this case it was a physical assault with intent to deprive the owner of property. Whether that property is physical/virtual, the owner still lost it. Personally, I think a short stint of community service is a pretty lenient punishment for assault and theft. I'm hoping that Runescape permabanned their accounts, too...
However, this isn't about the parent company taking away assets though, it's about a bunch of asshole kids beating and threatening another kid to take something away from him. Seems to me that - regardless of *why* they did it, they deserve a harsher punishment than they got.
What's the betting Microsoft starts slashing its prices in Russia?
After awhile, other countries would catch on to this, and MS would likely be forced to drop prices everywhere...
Well, one thing they do generally have in common is RIAA or related contracts, so I suppose that could be construed as an affiliation with the Devil, yes...
You won't *SEE* it at all. It will be done in secret, with severe penalties for anyone who lets it slip...
Just out of curiosity, which functionality? Got a link?
To run chips cooler, you have to slow them (do not want) or to undervolt them.
The "undervolt" option would fall in the efficiency category. The trick would be to make them perform at the same level (in terms of operations processed/time) while supplying less voltage. As it often seems that CPU makers tends towards "how can we crunch out more 'power' regardless of consumption before meltdown" as opposed to "how can we do the same amount of work in a similar amount of time with less power consumption," that would seem better.
I don't see how lowering the power requirements of a chip reduces thermal tolerance, though.
Uh, if the chips ran cooler, wouldn't there be less heat to dissipate in the first place?