Umm, well in the cases of illegal porn they're most likely not targeting online babes, so more likely they'll be chatting we "fat dude in mom's basement pretending to be an online babe" while simultaneously posing as a 14-year-old talking to online pervs.
Doesn't really sound like all that much fun to me, and I *really* don't think that the pictures/porn traded in those situations is going to be all that pleasant.
Having driven a multitude of different vehicles and models, I'd say that - in comparison to similar vehicles - Toyota does come out greener in many cases.
Fuel-inefficient, which year? My cousin's Toyota truck is much better on gas than similar Ford's at the time. I don't know anyone with Chevy/Dodge vehicles in the same time-frame, but it's definitely better than the old hosses I do know.
Same for vehicles, the first car I owned (though not my first vehicle) was a Camry. It beat my parents' accord for mileage (exempting very steep terrain), and it easily beat any of my friends fords/chevs/dodges.
My current vehicle is a Corolla. Why? Because it got better mileage than any non-hybrid (couldn't afford a hybrid) in the same year/class.
So yes, Toyota makes all types of vehicles. Some are less efficient than others. Some people do still *need* trucks (sorry, but I can't see you hauling heavy equipment in a little Hybrid) and Toyota makes those too. I don't know anyone who drives a Toyota hybrid, but it seems to me that on the majority of Toyota vehicles I have driven or know people that have, the fuel efficiency is better.
Yup, for the big stuff. Quite often it's the little stuff that doesn't have a site-license and/or got brought in by individual employees, or installed on "one machine too many."
Heck, I wonder how many violations are out there just with illegit copies of font-packs, etc.
Of all my discs, the HL2 ones are probably in the best condition. Mainly because I haven't had to remove them from the folder since I first installed the game and setup my Steam account.
This may be because most of the new titles coming out seem to be multiplayer only, which can't be restricted so easily
I played the shareware version quite a bit, got addicted to it, and then bought the full (and later doom2, and later again doom3...unfortunately).
In fact, a lot of the games I used to play were shareware before I bought them. In terms of FPS, Duke3d comes to mind as well, and the original Warcraft also had a shareware version. I think that Command & Conquer did as well.
Since the link in TFA seems to be dead I can't look up which games Cliff has been involved with or tell if they were released as shareware first.
However, on other recent games I can say this: I'm tired of being burned. C&C3 was a nightmare in terms of bugs and playability (it *STILL* has some major bugs in multiplayer). Doom3 wouldn't have been worth it if I didn't have a desire to support ID as well as try the game.
Frankly, I'm tired of being disappointed by overhyped new releases.... and games are just as bad as movies if not worse.
Where shareware started to die, I started downloading games first. If the game was good, I bought it. If it sucked, I played it enough to ensure its lack-of-quality, and then wiped it out.
Now to add to this, I've also "pirated" many games which I already own, either due to scratched discs, or because a downloaded ISO is sometimes easier than getting around the annoying copy-protection to play sans-disc-inserted or to keep my originals in a safe scratch-free condition.
Actually, for all the hate that steam picked up early on, I'd say *not* having to deal with swapping discs or entering long keycodes is a big bonus. People complained that if steam died the games would be unplayable, but the fact is that scratched discs and lost CD-keys are just as much of a concern, and a more common issue.
Hmm, in my case it's because I can't find a lot of the stuff I like. To be fair, a lot of it is older movies/music, but most of the big-box stores are only carrying the new stuff, and the used retailers haven't heard of it, or the hot stuff get snapped up right away.
Even the semi-recent stuff is sometimes hard to find. I've been trying to track down earlier seasons of "The Outer Limits" and everywhere, from HMV to the little used-disc shop on hidden street is out-of-stock.
Finally gave up and decided to torrent it, though I'll still keep my eyes out for the real thing (because some things are worth buying).
I guess the end resolution is: yes, it's worth paying for, but sometimes not worth the hassle of finding a vendor that actually carries the stuff.
My internet speeds kinda suck at times (even though I'm in the city, my area has crappy Bell infrastructure). I'd imagine that in some more remote areas or smaller towns they have slowness issues as well.
I wonder how feasible it would be to build a small local "mesh" network, so that neighbours could aggregate bandwidth? Creating a master node with wireless connections to everyone, and access via VPN to a semi-smart NAT box would be a fun project.
At first glance my network would appear insecure. If you can find it (no SSID broadcast, though that's simple to get past) then the DHCP server will happily give your machine an IP address.
However, *which* IP you get depends on a lot of things. The DHCP-pool IP's are rather restricted: if I remember correctly the only thing they're serving right now are DNS and http requests through the proxy. When I'm bored I also "massage" the firewall/proxy rules so that it does fun things with the proxied http requests, like various manipulations of the images. I'm still trying to figure out a good way to just translate the entire page-text to a random foreign language via babelfish or whatever.
To really do anything useful, you need to have a valid IP in the static net, then you need to VPN via OpenVPN, which at the moment I believe is more secure than current WEP/etc encryption, and seems less buggy as well (anyone notice that XP and certain routers like to randomly crap out then reconnect when using WEP... seems OK on 'nix though).
"These polarpolymers include poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) and poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)-chlorofluoroethylene, however there are other polarpolymers that exhibit the same effect."
It doesn't say what the "others" are, but perhaps there's something that can be used that would be more tolerant of high heat (or less toxic). Alternately, perhaps it could be used in a heatsink type scenario wherein the sink is cooled as it absorbs heat, but doesn't become superheated itself.
I'd say that with the increasingly high cost of fuel, many jobs may be moving closer to home (until a cheap fuel source is again realized).
Many companies are starting to realize that shipping parts is getting more and more expensive. In some cases, it's cheaper to keep the work closer to the distribution point, utilizing as many local resources (including workers) as possible.
While this doesn't like apply to the outsourced-helpdesk scenario, in cases of companies such as automotive manufacturers it may indeed be playing a part in decisions as to where vehicles/parts are manufactured.
Sounds to me like the nitrates will accumulate and then be washed away. They in themselves might not be so beneficial in concentrated form, but perhaps if they installed gutters the nitrates could then be used elsewhere. In many cases I believe that nitrates etc are beneficial for enriching plant soil, etc, we just don't want it creating massive amounts of unpleasant algae in the local watersheds.
I seem to remember that a good number of them are quite young. The flexibility required for gymnastics is probably one of the first things that goes with age.
For myself, I've always found much of the gymnastics area a mix of "wow, how can they do that" combined with a sense of "ouch" for bending and flexing that almost seems not humanly possible at times.
The weight-lifters are always a bit of a treat too. Sure it's a fairly simple sport in concept, but it's pretty amazing to watch guys lift what's probably the equivalent to a small car, especially when you get the shorter guys who seem to be nothing but muscle.
The human body is a pretty damn versatile machine at times, and the olympics can showcase some of the best of this.
Now, she had no way of knowing that Megan Meier was going to commit suicide
Actually, I think this is a big part of the question (not the EULA-related charges crap, but general liability). From what I've been able to tell, Lori did know that the girl in question was unstable, talked to her about deeply emotional issue, and then used that same knowledge to attack her. Maybe she didn't draw a direct correlation to possible suicide, but she definitely knew that her behavior was going to be severely damaging to this particular girl. It's like giving somebody a beating and saying "I didn't know it would kill her, I thought I just really wanted to hurt her."
Should society as a whole walk around on eggshells to avoid whatever trigger will cause the already mentally unstable to go over the edge?
No, but at the same time society would be taking active steps to further her destruction. There is a difference, you know.
Being unaware of a person's delicate mental state and being a bit insensitive is one thing, being well aware of said state and knowingly creating a damaging situation is another. That is, of course, why "intent" is a good part of law.
I don't send chocolates and roses to people from a the call-in list of the "suicide hotline" every week, but neither do I sent them boxes of razor blades. There's a difference between being unaware/uninvolved/ambiguous and knowingly being an active contributor to a person's destruction.
Is there a civil trial? Damages? OJ won in criminal court, but he paid through the nose in civil, and to me this seems in many cases more a civil matter than a criminal one.
It's one of those cases where I would think that extremely hefty financial penalties might be a good thing, as there's not much worse you can do to a family than drive one of their children to self-destruction.
Well, in this case, there was no foreknowledge that the person in question was fictitious, and it all came to light after the death of the girl.
I'd agree that pinning the charges on abuse of computer systems is lame though. Let's forget about the computer angle and try and figure how this would apply in the non-IT world... perhaps as an adult in a person-of-power position over a minor, or something similar?
What sort of procedures do they use against cult-leaders that abuse or push their followers into dangerous behavior? Maybe some of those are applicable?
One is an attempt to appeal to a sense of "mob justice" through humiliation, and the other is just some jerk on Craigslist.
... oh, wait a second.
To be fair though, I don't have too many issues with "to catch a predator" except for that fact that's it's been made into a public spectacle. Catching internet pervs trying to have sex with kids (and a number of them in a position to easil do so, such as teachers etc) isn't a bad thing in my book, however making it into a public event brings back memories of gladiators VS lions in old roman coliseums, sick entertainment for the masses.
You look over someone's shoulder and read a personal letter and that's not a crime, so how can it be a crime to access someone's e-mail
Talk about apples to oranges.
If you read somebody's letter over their shoulder, not a crime. If you read somebody email over their shoulder, same thing.
If you break into their postbox and open their mail, that would be more comparable to actually entering somebody's account without permission to read email...
Well, obviously the Philadelphia Inquirer poorly chose the name for their paper. I, for one, demand that they change the name of their newspaper so that we can take them seriously...
Of course, if they were impeached, charged, arrested, and imprisoned (unlikely, but hey, one can wished) even after the term, that would set a nice message for future holders of the office as well.
I've given up on many an RTS until the various map-hacks were blocked out, then played the on-and-off game as new ways to circumvent the block were found and then fixed.
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Umm, well in the cases of illegal porn they're most likely not targeting online babes, so more likely they'll be chatting we "fat dude in mom's basement pretending to be an online babe" while simultaneously posing as a 14-year-old talking to online pervs.
Doesn't really sound like all that much fun to me, and I *really* don't think that the pictures/porn traded in those situations is going to be all that pleasant.
So what you're saying is that the cops in Texas aren't just "acting" like they have something stuck up their ass?
Having driven a multitude of different vehicles and models, I'd say that - in comparison to similar vehicles - Toyota does come out greener in many cases.
Fuel-inefficient, which year? My cousin's Toyota truck is much better on gas than similar Ford's at the time. I don't know anyone with Chevy/Dodge vehicles in the same time-frame, but it's definitely better than the old hosses I do know.
Same for vehicles, the first car I owned (though not my first vehicle) was a Camry. It beat my parents' accord for mileage (exempting very steep terrain), and it easily beat any of my friends fords/chevs/dodges.
My current vehicle is a Corolla. Why? Because it got better mileage than any non-hybrid (couldn't afford a hybrid) in the same year/class.
So yes, Toyota makes all types of vehicles. Some are less efficient than others. Some people do still *need* trucks (sorry, but I can't see you hauling heavy equipment in a little Hybrid) and Toyota makes those too. I don't know anyone who drives a Toyota hybrid, but it seems to me that on the majority of Toyota vehicles I have driven or know people that have, the fuel efficiency is better.
Yup, for the big stuff. Quite often it's the little stuff that doesn't have a site-license and/or got brought in by individual employees, or installed on "one machine too many."
Heck, I wonder how many violations are out there just with illegit copies of font-packs, etc.
Of all my discs, the HL2 ones are probably in the best condition. Mainly because I haven't had to remove them from the folder since I first installed the game and setup my Steam account.
This may be because most of the new titles coming out seem to be multiplayer only, which can't be restricted so easily
I played the shareware version quite a bit, got addicted to it, and then bought the full (and later doom2, and later again doom3...unfortunately).
In fact, a lot of the games I used to play were shareware before I bought them. In terms of FPS, Duke3d comes to mind as well, and the original Warcraft also had a shareware version. I think that Command & Conquer did as well.
Since the link in TFA seems to be dead I can't look up which games Cliff has been involved with or tell if they were released as shareware first.
However, on other recent games I can say this: I'm tired of being burned. C&C3 was a nightmare in terms of bugs and playability (it *STILL* has some major bugs in multiplayer). Doom3 wouldn't have been worth it if I didn't have a desire to support ID as well as try the game.
Frankly, I'm tired of being disappointed by overhyped new releases.... and games are just as bad as movies if not worse.
Where shareware started to die, I started downloading games first. If the game was good, I bought it. If it sucked, I played it enough to ensure its lack-of-quality, and then wiped it out.
Now to add to this, I've also "pirated" many games which I already own, either due to scratched discs, or because a downloaded ISO is sometimes easier than getting around the annoying copy-protection to play sans-disc-inserted or to keep my originals in a safe scratch-free condition.
Actually, for all the hate that steam picked up early on, I'd say *not* having to deal with swapping discs or entering long keycodes is a big bonus. People complained that if steam died the games would be unplayable, but the fact is that scratched discs and lost CD-keys are just as much of a concern, and a more common issue.
Hmm, in my case it's because I can't find a lot of the stuff I like. To be fair, a lot of it is older movies/music, but most of the big-box stores are only carrying the new stuff, and the used retailers haven't heard of it, or the hot stuff get snapped up right away.
Even the semi-recent stuff is sometimes hard to find. I've been trying to track down earlier seasons of "The Outer Limits" and everywhere, from HMV to the little used-disc shop on hidden street is out-of-stock.
Finally gave up and decided to torrent it, though I'll still keep my eyes out for the real thing (because some things are worth buying).
I guess the end resolution is: yes, it's worth paying for, but sometimes not worth the hassle of finding a vendor that actually carries the stuff.
My internet speeds kinda suck at times (even though I'm in the city, my area has crappy Bell infrastructure). I'd imagine that in some more remote areas or smaller towns they have slowness issues as well.
I wonder how feasible it would be to build a small local "mesh" network, so that neighbours could aggregate bandwidth? Creating a master node with wireless connections to everyone, and access via VPN to a semi-smart NAT box would be a fun project.
At first glance my network would appear insecure. If you can find it (no SSID broadcast, though that's simple to get past) then the DHCP server will happily give your machine an IP address.
However, *which* IP you get depends on a lot of things. The DHCP-pool IP's are rather restricted: if I remember correctly the only thing they're serving right now are DNS and http requests through the proxy. When I'm bored I also "massage" the firewall/proxy rules so that it does fun things with the proxied http requests, like various manipulations of the images. I'm still trying to figure out a good way to just translate the entire page-text to a random foreign language via babelfish or whatever.
To really do anything useful, you need to have a valid IP in the static net, then you need to VPN via OpenVPN, which at the moment I believe is more secure than current WEP/etc encryption, and seems less buggy as well (anyone notice that XP and certain routers like to randomly crap out then reconnect when using WEP... seems OK on 'nix though).
"These polarpolymers include poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) and poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)-chlorofluoroethylene, however there are other polarpolymers that exhibit the same effect."
It doesn't say what the "others" are, but perhaps there's something that can be used that would be more tolerant of high heat (or less toxic). Alternately, perhaps it could be used in a heatsink type scenario wherein the sink is cooled as it absorbs heat, but doesn't become superheated itself.
If a bunch of the newer anti-terrorism laws were actually used to nail Diebold and their seemingly fraudulently-elected cronies?
Not that it's likely to happen, but it's fun to think about.
I'd say that with the increasingly high cost of fuel, many jobs may be moving closer to home (until a cheap fuel source is again realized).
Many companies are starting to realize that shipping parts is getting more and more expensive. In some cases, it's cheaper to keep the work closer to the distribution point, utilizing as many local resources (including workers) as possible.
While this doesn't like apply to the outsourced-helpdesk scenario, in cases of companies such as automotive manufacturers it may indeed be playing a part in decisions as to where vehicles/parts are manufactured.
Sounds to me like the nitrates will accumulate and then be washed away. They in themselves might not be so beneficial in concentrated form, but perhaps if they installed gutters the nitrates could then be used elsewhere. In many cases I believe that nitrates etc are beneficial for enriching plant soil, etc, we just don't want it creating massive amounts of unpleasant algae in the local watersheds.
I seem to remember that a good number of them are quite young. The flexibility required for gymnastics is probably one of the first things that goes with age.
For myself, I've always found much of the gymnastics area a mix of "wow, how can they do that" combined with a sense of "ouch" for bending and flexing that almost seems not humanly possible at times.
The weight-lifters are always a bit of a treat too. Sure it's a fairly simple sport in concept, but it's pretty amazing to watch guys lift what's probably the equivalent to a small car, especially when you get the shorter guys who seem to be nothing but muscle.
The human body is a pretty damn versatile machine at times, and the olympics can showcase some of the best of this.
the first password is 12345
Amazing, that's the same password that I use on my luggage!
Now, she had no way of knowing that Megan Meier was going to commit suicide
Actually, I think this is a big part of the question (not the EULA-related charges crap, but general liability). From what I've been able to tell, Lori did know that the girl in question was unstable, talked to her about deeply emotional issue, and then used that same knowledge to attack her. Maybe she didn't draw a direct correlation to possible suicide, but she definitely knew that her behavior was going to be severely damaging to this particular girl. It's like giving somebody a beating and saying "I didn't know it would kill her, I thought I just really wanted to hurt her."
Should society as a whole walk around on eggshells to avoid whatever trigger will cause the already mentally unstable to go over the edge?
No, but at the same time society would be taking active steps to further her destruction. There is a difference, you know.
Being unaware of a person's delicate mental state and being a bit insensitive is one thing, being well aware of said state and knowingly creating a damaging situation is another. That is, of course, why "intent" is a good part of law.
I don't send chocolates and roses to people from a the call-in list of the "suicide hotline" every week, but neither do I sent them boxes of razor blades. There's a difference between being unaware/uninvolved/ambiguous and knowingly being an active contributor to a person's destruction.
Is there a civil trial? Damages? OJ won in criminal court, but he paid through the nose in civil, and to me this seems in many cases more a civil matter than a criminal one.
It's one of those cases where I would think that extremely hefty financial penalties might be a good thing, as there's not much worse you can do to a family than drive one of their children to self-destruction.
Well, in this case, there was no foreknowledge that the person in question was fictitious, and it all came to light after the death of the girl.
I'd agree that pinning the charges on abuse of computer systems is lame though. Let's forget about the computer angle and try and figure how this would apply in the non-IT world... perhaps as an adult in a person-of-power position over a minor, or something similar?
What sort of procedures do they use against cult-leaders that abuse or push their followers into dangerous behavior? Maybe some of those are applicable?
One is an attempt to appeal to a sense of "mob justice" through humiliation, and the other is just some jerk on Craigslist.
To be fair though, I don't have too many issues with "to catch a predator" except for that fact that's it's been made into a public spectacle. Catching internet pervs trying to have sex with kids (and a number of them in a position to easil do so, such as teachers etc) isn't a bad thing in my book, however making it into a public event brings back memories of gladiators VS lions in old roman coliseums, sick entertainment for the masses.
You look over someone's shoulder and read a personal letter and that's not a crime, so how can it be a crime to access someone's e-mail
Talk about apples to oranges.
If you read somebody's letter over their shoulder, not a crime. If you read somebody email over their shoulder, same thing.
If you break into their postbox and open their mail, that would be more comparable to actually entering somebody's account without permission to read email...
Well, obviously the Philadelphia Inquirer poorly chose the name for their paper. I, for one, demand that they change the name of their newspaper so that we can take them seriously...
Probably not. Which makes it easier to tag and pay even closer attempt to those that *do* use VPN's
Of course, if they were impeached, charged, arrested, and imprisoned (unlikely, but hey, one can wished) even after the term, that would set a nice message for future holders of the office as well.
It's usually the way it works.
I've given up on many an RTS until the various map-hacks were blocked out, then played the on-and-off game as new ways to circumvent the block were found and then fixed.