They came for the old cliche lines, but everyone cheered for that because they were tired of hearing it
How about instead of reciting the same old drivel, you offer a plan of action that people might persue. It's fine to bitch about how nobody else is acting, but really unless you're offering a plan or incentive then it's not being productive.
There are already kernel modules that allow you to read NTFS partitions, though I'm not sure if it's full-functioned (large filenames, etc). If you were just looking to copy off your important data, basic read access might be all one needs in most cases.
Read access from the NTFS partitions seems to be simpler than write access, and it's part of the kernel. I'm not sure if there are extended read functions in ntfs.sys, but you do need it to get the write functionality.
Don't some of the popular (or formerly popular) boy-bands use pitchalizers etc to stabilize their voice output. I think others do as well. You could qualify that as as least partially synthetic...
"they're the margarine of music... 1/2 the calories, not quite real enough"
Africa and the Middle East have expanding populations, but even there the rate has generally slowed
From what I last remember reading, a rather large portion of the African population is infected with the HIV or AIDS virus. The result of this will likely be a sudden and rapid decline in the African population, subsequent to the disease taking out much of a generation (unless a cure is found, and more importantly made affordable/available).
No mention of the asiatic countries, how do they fare as far as population expansion? I'd imagine that in many areas that area still booming?
Don't beat the slaves oneday and they think its christmas.
In this case the "slaves" are lining up for the beating though. If you don't want to catch a stinker, don't go to opening night. Check the reviews on the 'net first... listen to what people coming out of the show are saying.
The movie theatres are claiming that text-messaging etc are damaging to them (mainly from people warning others of stinkers) - so why not use it?
Personally, I'd rather warn everyone else who might pay for a shit movie that it was shit than whine over my $8 (around here it is $8-10, and that's Canadian $$$ even)
I think the best weapon we have is informing others. Start your own reviews webpage, post to the ones that exist... when you exit a stinker be sure to complain vocally about how much it such balls so anyone else thinking of going in can hear (anyone who goes in after hearing a movie sucks pretty much deserves what they get).
This is where I wonder what could be covered by this act. Maybe if it were only concerned with databases containing, say, financial or such information it wouldn't be so bad, but how about if a company is archiving most or even all of its internal communication?
Sounds to me like the leaked diebold memos would have been a great chance for a smackdown lawsuit in this case...
Even better, how about if you are emailing something to yourself at home, maybe on a break. Even if your company didn't contractually claim exclusive rights to anything coming out of your head, if it was archived from corporate email then wouldn't this give them rights to it?
Just throwing around some basic doom+gloom, I'm sure the professionals (corporations) would be able to come around with some more advanced methods of screwing us over...
I you go to the movie, honestly enjoy it, and walk out having benefitted from the experience, I think that New Line (or any movie company) deserves your $8.
However, if the average person/fan went to the movie after it was hyped up, found it sucked, and wanted not only his money but the 3 hours back... I'd support him.
There's nothing wrong with making a profit on a movie. Not even a gross profit, if the end product is worth the money I paid for it. Releasing a "Terminator 3" or another cash-out is BS, but from all I've heard ROTK should live up to the hype.
If you made a piece of software that 90-95% of users found excellent and found the cost/value ratio just fine, would you like me to call you sick and amoral if you profited hugely from the success of the product? No? Didn't think so.
a) Myself
b) My employer
c) Other people that ask for a feature, or I know use the software
I'm not writing to replace windows, or even really for the benefit of the whole world (in the sense that I'm not trying to make a magic-button GUI app that satisfies everyone), I'm doing it for my own purposes. Nobody else should assume that those purposes necessarily match their own.
Without the word processor half of us could not write a paper with perfect grammar.
Biggest laugh I've had in awhile. I work in schools, the teachers here definately learned their schooling in the days before calculators/spellcheckers were available to students.
You should see all the interesting spelling errors on computer requests I get (non-technical words)... and these from teachers - albeit not english teachers. Those that use email/w spellcheck at least have slightly more comprehensible requests.
p.s. Is it just me or does 80% of the population not know the difference between lose (as in, to suffer a loss) and loose (as in, slack, not tight, etc)
What the sex registries are saying is that crimes involving your genitals are intrinsically worse than murder
I'd say in many cases the focus is more on likelyhood to re-offend. With the exception of gang members, serial killers, etc, many murderers are those who have committed the crime due to a particular stimulous, or against a particular individual.
Whilst the offender might reoffend, (s)he's less likely to go out and butcher the neighbours children than your recently-released pedophile is to abuse them.
However, as per the reasons cited before (inaccuracies, wrongly accused, an young man with a young girl getting railroaded for life) I think the registry is a bad idea, but I'd definately support it for repeat offenders... increases the accuracy a whole lot, and they're definately somebody you want to protect your family against.
Any system has flaws, but those that don't improve will eventually fail...
A per the Chinese government, yes it definately seems to suck to outside eyes, but the current leader and general trend has been progressive for the China as opposed to previous years. The fact that they are declared rulers as opposed to ones voted in by machines supplied by these guys doesn't exactly instill my heart with fear.
Actually, being that my own gov't is selling off our province (BC, Canada) piece by piece, and our southern neighbours are starting to run a police state, I'd be hard-pressed to judge the policies of anywhere else.
If you look at the case where a Canadian reporter was beaten to death in Iran, many people have been poo-pooing that particular country... one reporter however had the guys to question "how can we criticize," pointing to a case of police beatings of suspects in local parks, or extreme measures taken against protesters in political summits.
People in glass houses... I don't agree with a lot of what the Chinese gov't does, but they aren't all bad. If you look at the Chinese prison system (yes, there are those falsely imprisoned) you'll see that many prisoners work, proceeds going to the state. Families of those executed get a bill for the bullet.... how much I'd like to see that here rather than our "let them sit and learn new carjacking skills at taxpayers expense" local prisons.
When you've built some brick walls on your house, perhaps then you'd like to go throw stones?
Really, if you start getting a bounty on hackers, then it makes it a viable options for a careers. Perhaps not a full-time career, but maybe a side-job in addition to your pay-the-rent-feed-the-family type employment.
A lot of people argue that bounties will drive hackers (for the assumption of the article, blackhat varieties) underground, or perhaps incite turning in innocents for money... which is likely possible. You might want to consider that after a certain period of time, a process will be garnered to seperate the idiots from the professionals, and individuals respected in the field of hack-tracking can arise.
Which leads me to ask, other than certain gov't agencies that do investigate such things (usually only when involving larger amounts of money), is there anyone out there that does employ themselves by offering services for tracking hackers/DDOS'ers/spammers for organizations? I think many businesses might be happy to pay somebody to track down an attacker and then deal with them as opposed to pay extortion fees or deal with loads of penis-enlargement ads sucking their bandwidth...
For more examples of this, listen to or read some of "the champ" dialogues.
Among words dissected are fag (bum a fag), meaning in Briton "bum=borrow a fag=cigarette" and I believe the original definition of fag being a pile of sticks.
Others include amusing phrasing of the word snatch (also, to grab), and others. Despite being somewhat of gutter-humour in the sense of the language and actions, it is still witty in the case of the plays on words
Oh, and language not only varies over time, but distance, as demonstrated above with the Brit/American definations.
Firstly, I'm not sure how easy it is to jam such a system in a specific area without affecting a broader base, moresoover in a way that can't be done already. Also, the whole "what about the terrorists" arguement has become as stale as "what about the children." Do you think that the EU should bow to the US and degrade a service provided to everyone on the off possibility that the US might need to disrupt it going after a particular individual/group?
If the EU is in control of said system in the first place... and they're cooperating with the US, why not just let them do it?
The French have always been a big proponent but then again they have this massive penis envy with respect to the US.
Speaking as a non-American but not a francophone, I'd say that it's more like the French dislike that the Americans assume that everyone else wants to be like them because "America is the best place in the world."
I doubt that the average Frenchman goes home from a day at works, has dinner, and says "damn I wish I were an American" on the average day.
Indeed, but realistically though the ability is there for the cell companies to monitor, it shouldn't be available to private citizens. Even parents monitoring their teens is a violation of privacy.
I'd would say however, that if it's not disabled in cellphones, then it should be unavailable to the general public anyways, and for that matter the authorities without proper warrants, etc.
I would also say, however, if somebody has an emergency and authorizes over-phone the use of cellular tracking, then it should be allowed. Perhaps as a precaution, they could have a special number that can be dialled to authorize such a trace.
Include the feature, allow it to be disabled... by default.
If you want to be tracked, it's a feature. If you don't, you're not having your privacy violated.
Of course... the main issue is with whether or not you can tell if it's actually disabled. And of course police monitoring warrants apply regardless (same as they do with a home phone wiretap, I would assume?).
I think that the area where "next gen" DVD's will fit in best will be in the recording arena. That is, not home recorders (not yet anyways), but professional recordings.
Think about the massive amount of storage these guys must go through to store (and later archive) the original cuts of movies. If we can come up with a resiliant, high-capacity, versatile storage, then movie studios will save a killer amount of money. Eventually, this can pass onto home editors, as the technology becomes mainstream (hey, look at what you can do at home now Vs 10 years ago).
As a question do, does anyone know what standard original movie footage is "filmed" on? Also, isn't DVD a somewhat lossy format (MPEG-2 based), so probably not good for professional-grade recording yet?
What I don't understand is, why does seawater lead to dehydration (due to salt content) when you often have to ingest salt in certain desert areas to prevent it?
Anyone got input on this?
Oh, and if anything speeds dehydration it's caffeine, a cup of coffee will leave you more dry than refreshed in the long run.
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They came for the old cliche lines, but everyone cheered for that because they were tired of hearing it
How about instead of reciting the same old drivel, you offer a plan of action that people might persue. It's fine to bitch about how nobody else is acting, but really unless you're offering a plan or incentive then it's not being productive.
You could probably handle this with a simple bash script:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows /mnt/windows -iname ntfs.sys -exec ntfsload {} \;
/mnt/windows /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
#!/bin/sh
modprobe ntfs
mount -t ntfs
find
umount
rmmod ntfs
mount -t winntfs
The ntfsload command and winntfs FS being, of course, fudged (because the site is dead), but something similar should work just fine?
There are already kernel modules that allow you to read NTFS partitions, though I'm not sure if it's full-functioned (large filenames, etc). If you were just looking to copy off your important data, basic read access might be all one needs in most cases.
Read access from the NTFS partitions seems to be simpler than write access, and it's part of the kernel. I'm not sure if there are extended read functions in ntfs.sys, but you do need it to get the write functionality.
I can watch my computer without needed an extra desk-top. I believe that a refractive or reflective display would require an external light source?
Don't some of the popular (or formerly popular) boy-bands use pitchalizers etc to stabilize their voice output. I think others do as well. You could qualify that as as least partially synthetic...
"they're the margarine of music... 1/2 the calories, not quite real enough"
Africa and the Middle East have expanding populations, but even there the rate has generally slowed From what I last remember reading, a rather large portion of the African population is infected with the HIV or AIDS virus. The result of this will likely be a sudden and rapid decline in the African population, subsequent to the disease taking out much of a generation (unless a cure is found, and more importantly made affordable/available).
No mention of the asiatic countries, how do they fare as far as population expansion? I'd imagine that in many areas that area still booming?
Don't beat the slaves oneday and they think its christmas.
In this case the "slaves" are lining up for the beating though. If you don't want to catch a stinker, don't go to opening night. Check the reviews on the 'net first... listen to what people coming out of the show are saying.
The movie theatres are claiming that text-messaging etc are damaging to them (mainly from people warning others of stinkers) - so why not use it?
Personally, I'd rather warn everyone else who might pay for a shit movie that it was shit than whine over my $8 (around here it is $8-10, and that's Canadian $$$ even)
I think the best weapon we have is informing others. Start your own reviews webpage, post to the ones that exist... when you exit a stinker be sure to complain vocally about how much it such balls so anyone else thinking of going in can hear (anyone who goes in after hearing a movie sucks pretty much deserves what they get).
This is where I wonder what could be covered by this act. Maybe if it were only concerned with databases containing, say, financial or such information it wouldn't be so bad, but how about if a company is archiving most or even all of its internal communication?
Sounds to me like the leaked diebold memos would have been a great chance for a smackdown lawsuit in this case...
Even better, how about if you are emailing something to yourself at home, maybe on a break. Even if your company didn't contractually claim exclusive rights to anything coming out of your head, if it was archived from corporate email then wouldn't this give them rights to it?
Just throwing around some basic doom+gloom, I'm sure the professionals (corporations) would be able to come around with some more advanced methods of screwing us over...
I you go to the movie, honestly enjoy it, and walk out having benefitted from the experience, I think that New Line (or any movie company) deserves your $8.
However, if the average person/fan went to the movie after it was hyped up, found it sucked, and wanted not only his money but the 3 hours back... I'd support him.
There's nothing wrong with making a profit on a movie. Not even a gross profit, if the end product is worth the money I paid for it. Releasing a "Terminator 3" or another cash-out is BS, but from all I've heard ROTK should live up to the hype.
If you made a piece of software that 90-95% of users found excellent and found the cost/value ratio just fine, would you like me to call you sick and amoral if you profited hugely from the success of the product? No? Didn't think so.
But when I write software, I write it for:
a) Myself
b) My employer
c) Other people that ask for a feature, or I know use the software
I'm not writing to replace windows, or even really for the benefit of the whole world (in the sense that I'm not trying to make a magic-button GUI app that satisfies everyone), I'm doing it for my own purposes. Nobody else should assume that those purposes necessarily match their own.
Without the word processor half of us could not write a paper with perfect grammar.
/w spellcheck at least have slightly more comprehensible requests.
Biggest laugh I've had in awhile. I work in schools, the teachers here definately learned their schooling in the days before calculators/spellcheckers were available to students.
You should see all the interesting spelling errors on computer requests I get (non-technical words)... and these from teachers - albeit not english teachers. Those that use email
p.s. Is it just me or does 80% of the population not know the difference between lose (as in, to suffer a loss) and loose (as in, slack, not tight, etc)
What the sex registries are saying is that crimes involving your genitals are intrinsically worse than murder
I'd say in many cases the focus is more on likelyhood to re-offend. With the exception of gang members, serial killers, etc, many murderers are those who have committed the crime due to a particular stimulous, or against a particular individual.
Whilst the offender might reoffend, (s)he's less likely to go out and butcher the neighbours children than your recently-released pedophile is to abuse them.
However, as per the reasons cited before (inaccuracies, wrongly accused, an young man with a young girl getting railroaded for life) I think the registry is a bad idea, but I'd definately support it for repeat offenders... increases the accuracy a whole lot, and they're definately somebody you want to protect your family against.
Any system has flaws, but those that don't improve will eventually fail...
A per the Chinese government, yes it definately seems to suck to outside eyes, but the current leader and general trend has been progressive for the China as opposed to previous years. The fact that they are declared rulers as opposed to ones voted in by machines supplied by these guys doesn't exactly instill my heart with fear.
Actually, being that my own gov't is selling off our province (BC, Canada) piece by piece, and our southern neighbours are starting to run a police state, I'd be hard-pressed to judge the policies of anywhere else.
If you look at the case where a Canadian reporter was beaten to death in Iran, many people have been poo-pooing that particular country... one reporter however had the guys to question "how can we criticize," pointing to a case of police beatings of suspects in local parks, or extreme measures taken against protesters in political summits.
People in glass houses... I don't agree with a lot of what the Chinese gov't does, but they aren't all bad. If you look at the Chinese prison system (yes, there are those falsely imprisoned) you'll see that many prisoners work, proceeds going to the state. Families of those executed get a bill for the bullet.... how much I'd like to see that here rather than our "let them sit and learn new carjacking skills at taxpayers expense" local prisons.
When you've built some brick walls on your house, perhaps then you'd like to go throw stones?
Really, if you start getting a bounty on hackers, then it makes it a viable options for a careers. Perhaps not a full-time career, but maybe a side-job in addition to your pay-the-rent-feed-the-family type employment.
A lot of people argue that bounties will drive hackers (for the assumption of the article, blackhat varieties) underground, or perhaps incite turning in innocents for money... which is likely possible. You might want to consider that after a certain period of time, a process will be garnered to seperate the idiots from the professionals, and individuals respected in the field of hack-tracking can arise.
Which leads me to ask, other than certain gov't agencies that do investigate such things (usually only when involving larger amounts of money), is there anyone out there that does employ themselves by offering services for tracking hackers/DDOS'ers/spammers for organizations? I think many businesses might be happy to pay somebody to track down an attacker and then deal with them as opposed to pay extortion fees or deal with loads of penis-enlargement ads sucking their bandwidth...
For more examples of this, listen to or read some of "the champ" dialogues.
Among words dissected are fag (bum a fag), meaning in Briton "bum=borrow a fag=cigarette" and I believe the original definition of fag being a pile of sticks.
Others include amusing phrasing of the word snatch (also, to grab), and others. Despite being somewhat of gutter-humour in the sense of the language and actions, it is still witty in the case of the plays on words
Oh, and language not only varies over time, but distance, as demonstrated above with the Brit/American definations.
This could be intended to voice that due to an existing/previous lack in IM standards, such standards are being implemented for current/new versions?
Firstly, I'm not sure how easy it is to jam such a system in a specific area without affecting a broader base, moresoover in a way that can't be done already. Also, the whole "what about the terrorists" arguement has become as stale as "what about the children." Do you think that the EU should bow to the US and degrade a service provided to everyone on the off possibility that the US might need to disrupt it going after a particular individual/group?
If the EU is in control of said system in the first place... and they're cooperating with the US, why not just let them do it?
The French have always been a big proponent but then again they have this massive penis envy with respect to the US.
Speaking as a non-American but not a francophone, I'd say that it's more like the French dislike that the Americans assume that everyone else wants to be like them because "America is the best place in the world."
I doubt that the average Frenchman goes home from a day at works, has dinner, and says "damn I wish I were an American" on the average day.
Indeed, but realistically though the ability is there for the cell companies to monitor, it shouldn't be available to private citizens. Even parents monitoring their teens is a violation of privacy.
I'd would say however, that if it's not disabled in cellphones, then it should be unavailable to the general public anyways, and for that matter the authorities without proper warrants, etc.
I would also say, however, if somebody has an emergency and authorizes over-phone the use of cellular tracking, then it should be allowed. Perhaps as a precaution, they could have a special number that can be dialled to authorize such a trace.
Include the feature, allow it to be disabled... by default.
If you want to be tracked, it's a feature. If you don't, you're not having your privacy violated.
Of course... the main issue is with whether or not you can tell if it's actually disabled. And of course police monitoring warrants apply regardless (same as they do with a home phone wiretap, I would assume?).
I think that the area where "next gen" DVD's will fit in best will be in the recording arena. That is, not home recorders (not yet anyways), but professional recordings.
Think about the massive amount of storage these guys must go through to store (and later archive) the original cuts of movies. If we can come up with a resiliant, high-capacity, versatile storage, then movie studios will save a killer amount of money. Eventually, this can pass onto home editors, as the technology becomes mainstream (hey, look at what you can do at home now Vs 10 years ago).
As a question do, does anyone know what standard original movie footage is "filmed" on? Also, isn't DVD a somewhat lossy format (MPEG-2 based), so probably not good for professional-grade recording yet?
What I don't understand is, why does seawater lead to dehydration (due to salt content) when you often have to ingest salt in certain desert areas to prevent it?
Anyone got input on this?
Oh, and if anything speeds dehydration it's caffeine, a cup of coffee will leave you more dry than refreshed in the long run.
Is that the web on the "marijuana" spider is probably closest to the original "untained" form, yet caffeine is the worst.
Wonder what it says for the war on drugs when caffeine is legal.
Do you have a link on this? Or perhaps some more info onto what poisonous substance is found in standard macadamia nuts?