They were inflatable mylar structures with a VERY LIMITED lifespan, say, a month tops.
If someone wants to spend a billion dollars to have a logo a quarter of the size of the moon for a few weeks thats only really visible in rural areas, let them.
Folks have been chomping at the bit for this kind of stuff for decades. Ever since those big foil sphere satellites in the 60s were visible from earth.
Pizza Hut is prepared to spend a billion to the Russians for their logo up there, the producers of the Lord of the Rings contacted folks about putting an inflatable ring in orbit to hock their movie. The Eiffel Tower corporation wanted a space sculpture to commemerate their anniversary. There was talk of putting something up to celebrate the millenium..
It's going to happen. Whether you want to call it 'art' or 'advertising'.. Best to lay the ground rules now.
Most of those "advertising" dollars are spent sponsoring things like sporting events, theatre, live concerts, etc..
Almost every major venue has a corporate sponsor these days. Staples Arena, 1st Mariner Arena, Air Canada Center, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, etc.. Because, by themselves, these arena's arent profitable.
Noone could afford to race Nascar if not for those company decals plastered all over the cars.
So the big corporations write it off as marketing dollars, we get our big stadiums and events.. They also pay for our free-to-air TV and radio (which is a relatively small amount of their advertising budgets).
It's volatile storage, cacheing for multiple databases.
I see a mainframe running a hundred thousand or so small queries simultaneosly, rather than one huge database running one query at a time.
But, whatever. The government already has a hell of a lot more personal data than that. They're called tax returns, birth certificates, drivers licenses, marraige licenses, etc, etc..
That Sony took the time to get it's product listed with UL would be enough to show 'ordinary care'. Warning stickers and whatnot make up the rest. "Not to be used in wet locations".
Letting a TV ship with some obvious flaw, like the cathode wiring exposed and just waiting to be accidentally touched, then you'd have a suit.
You have no idea what it's for. The list of known terrorists and their acquaitances is relatively short, I cant imagine more than a few gigabytes being needed.
Perhaps it's to store tax returns so the government can mail you your refund check faster. (Job required, sorry).
Maybe INS (or USCIS or whatever they're called) want to track the tidal wave of benifits being handed to Mexican illegals.
I'm a little tired of all this Big Brother speculation. Get over it.
In the case of a database to catch potential interactions between drugs - it can only save lives. Before computers, it was the pharmacist and doctors job to know about these interactions. And, after computers, it's STILL the pharmacist and doctors job to know about the interactions. The computer is an aid, but not a doctor, and should be viewed as such.
If you were a carpenter, and the work order came out of the printer wrong, and said the door opening was 3.8" wide, you'd get out your measuring tape and double check before you tried to install it.
To continue the analogy, it's a poor tradesman who blames his tools.
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<ARCHIE BUNKER> Would you prefer, little goil, if they was pushed outta windows? </ARCHIE BUNKER>
What other manufacturer would be held accountable?
My TV comes with a warrantee, but that says they wont be liable for any damage or caused by the use of the tv.
I bought a bucked of concrete paint a week ago. It's guaranteed not to fail, but that guarantee doesnt cover the cost to remove/strip/repair the damage caused by bad paint (thousands), just 20 bucks for a new can of paint.
In court you'd have to prove negligence or deliberate behavior. You'd have to prove Sony designed the TV to electrocute you, etc.. The fact they get it UL listed is enough to get past that.
For software you'd have to show that they deliberately put the flaws in, or knew about the flaws and didnt care (depraved indifference)..
But I'm no lawyer so who knows.. Everyone can go fucking sue everyone else.
All I know is if Dr Pib puts a family member on an untested, unproven life support system, and it fails, I'm suing the Doctor.
You gutted a Main Event cabinet to put in 90 trackballs and spinners and all that shit? Let me guess, you screwed in a little plywood shelf and stuck a TV in it. Then used black bristolboard to make the authentic-looking bezel. Oh, and used a jigsaw to cut out a hole for a keyboard drawer.
Sorry, but that's ghetto. It looks stupid, as stupid as a homemade spoiler on a honda civic. Just because it was a lot of work doesn't mean the end product is appealing.
If you read my post, I only have room for 3 or 4 cabinets. I swap them out. I find them all over for cheap, if not free. You just have to look. In real life, that is. Find folks whos pizzaria folded and need the crap hauled away, etc. eBay and other online resources are good sources for parts.
For instance, I got a Tekken cabinet with some monitor problems (which amounted to a tweaking of the vertical hold and tightening the wire harness) for free, I just had to haul it away myself.
It's a cheap hobby. Cheaper by far than collecting Spawn figurines or pokemon cards or 60 bucks a piece PS2 titles, or whatever other lame things slashdotters do for fun.
I'd much rather have one good original than 10000 pac-man clones. And when I'm sick of it, I sell it.
They are NOT the same. There are subtle differences in every game I've played. Noone notices since they dont have the original to compare too.
If you really love arcade games, collect and restore the machines. I only have room for 3 or 4 upright cabinets, but I pick up old ones, restore them, play them till I'm bored of it, then sell them and start over.
I usually turn enough profit to buy everyone I know a gummi bear.
But, there are tons of subtle differences. Midi tempos are usually off, colors are off. The games dont look the same emulated, even through a real arcade monitor..
Emulation is really neat, technically.. But if you truly love the old classics, keep the old classics around. Rescue that beat up SFII cabinet from the pizza shop, clean it up, repair/replace the controls.. Give it a little elbow grease..
MAME cabinets are just so... ghetto.. Especially when people try and cram every possible control into them.. Two sticks, 12 buttons each, trackballs, spinners, meh.. They look retarded. Many real cabinets were works of functional art.. Look at an old defender control panel.. Designed to function for only one game..
Or vindicators, a cabinet shaped like a giant tank with two crazy throttle levers for control.
The majority of the video game market is males, aged 18-35.. Google yourself for the demographics, I'm too tired too.
Bitching "what about the children!?" is pointless. There are plenty of age appropriate games out there, Mario, Sonic, Crash Bandicoot are still about.
But, there now exists a generation of adults who grew up on video games. They aren't kids stuff anymore.
The latest big budget kill-fest video game should be measured against the yardstick of the latest big-budget R-rated movie, not the latest disney flick. Compare it to HBO, not Nickelodeon.
A 20 year old gets the jokes and satire in the GTA3 series. An 8 year old doesnt. Games are rated for a reason. Time for some personal and parental responsibility.
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Is the whole book like that sample chapter?
Because all I read was descriptions of some old attacks, SMB and UPnP exploits, some proof of concept code..
Nothing about methods or philosophies to protect in the future, it looked more like every other O'Reilly book I've read, just info scraped from relevant forums and faqs to fill pages.
Reads more like a script kiddy cookbook than a tool for Admins.
"Pay me $300,000 or I'll shut you down and keep you out of your data"
What was the oral contract? The Sheriffs dept most likely owns the website and the content on it, and this guy was just hosting it.
If he doesn't want to host it, fine, they take their business elsewhere. He sues for services rendered, etc..
But if he threatened to hold the content hostage, he probably crossed the line into extortion. He was demanding money to release property he didnt have a claim over. It would be like me taking home the sourcecode from my company, and demanding a payoff to give it back.
DA's file charges, not local podunk Sherriff's (With whom I work with every day so I know how little power they actually have). DA's usually aren't very thrilled when Barney Fife shows up with some frivolous overblown charge.
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They were inflatable mylar structures with a VERY LIMITED lifespan, say, a month tops.
If someone wants to spend a billion dollars to have a logo a quarter of the size of the moon for a few weeks thats only really visible in rural areas, let them.
Folks have been chomping at the bit for this kind of stuff for decades. Ever since those big foil sphere satellites in the 60s were visible from earth.
Pizza Hut is prepared to spend a billion to the Russians for their logo up there, the producers of the Lord of the Rings contacted folks about putting an inflatable ring in orbit to hock their movie. The Eiffel Tower corporation wanted a space sculpture to commemerate their anniversary. There was talk of putting something up to celebrate the millenium..
It's going to happen. Whether you want to call it 'art' or 'advertising'.. Best to lay the ground rules now.
Most of those "advertising" dollars are spent sponsoring things like sporting events, theatre, live concerts, etc..
Almost every major venue has a corporate sponsor these days. Staples Arena, 1st Mariner Arena, Air Canada Center, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, etc.. Because, by themselves, these arena's arent profitable.
Noone could afford to race Nascar if not for those company decals plastered all over the cars.
So the big corporations write it off as marketing dollars, we get our big stadiums and events.. They also pay for our free-to-air TV and radio (which is a relatively small amount of their advertising budgets).
"Stuck" as in dual channel DDR and now quad channel RDRAM solutions?
Current chipsets can pretty much deliver data as fast as the CPU can use it.
Xeons are still 533mhz because 800 on the desktop is basically marketing tripe - it really doesnt make your computer perform any better.
Hail from every rooftop!
Some bugs are fixed!
Now we know why the government needed that 2.5TB chunk of RAM.
It's volatile storage, cacheing for multiple databases.
I see a mainframe running a hundred thousand or so small queries simultaneosly, rather than one huge database running one query at a time.
But, whatever. The government already has a hell of a lot more personal data than that. They're called tax returns, birth certificates, drivers licenses, marraige licenses, etc, etc..
..what a person exercising ordinary care..
That Sony took the time to get it's product listed with UL would be enough to show 'ordinary care'. Warning stickers and whatnot make up the rest. "Not to be used in wet locations".
Letting a TV ship with some obvious flaw, like the cathode wiring exposed and just waiting to be accidentally touched, then you'd have a suit.
The law lets you make mistakes.
You have no idea what it's for. The list of known terrorists and their acquaitances is relatively short, I cant imagine more than a few gigabytes being needed.
Perhaps it's to store tax returns so the government can mail you your refund check faster. (Job required, sorry).
Maybe INS (or USCIS or whatever they're called) want to track the tidal wave of benifits being handed to Mexican illegals.
I'm a little tired of all this Big Brother speculation. Get over it.
Computers are tools.
In the case of a database to catch potential interactions between drugs - it can only save lives. Before computers, it was the pharmacist and doctors job to know about these interactions. And, after computers, it's STILL the pharmacist and doctors job to know about the interactions. The computer is an aid, but not a doctor, and should be viewed as such.
If you were a carpenter, and the work order came out of the printer wrong, and said the door opening was 3.8" wide, you'd get out your measuring tape and double check before you tried to install it.
To continue the analogy, it's a poor tradesman who blames his tools.
<ARCHIE BUNKER>
Would you prefer, little goil, if they was pushed outta windows?
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What other manufacturer would be held accountable?
My TV comes with a warrantee, but that says they wont be liable for any damage or caused by the use of the tv.
I bought a bucked of concrete paint a week ago. It's guaranteed not to fail, but that guarantee doesnt cover the cost to remove/strip/repair the damage caused by bad paint (thousands), just 20 bucks for a new can of paint.
In court you'd have to prove negligence or deliberate behavior. You'd have to prove Sony designed the TV to electrocute you, etc.. The fact they get it UL listed is enough to get past that.
For software you'd have to show that they deliberately put the flaws in, or knew about the flaws and didnt care (depraved indifference)..
But I'm no lawyer so who knows.. Everyone can go fucking sue everyone else.
All I know is if Dr Pib puts a family member on an untested, unproven life support system, and it fails, I'm suing the Doctor.
You gutted a Main Event cabinet to put in 90 trackballs and spinners and all that shit? Let me guess, you screwed in a little plywood shelf and stuck a TV in it. Then used black bristolboard to make the authentic-looking bezel. Oh, and used a jigsaw to cut out a hole for a keyboard drawer.
Sorry, but that's ghetto. It looks stupid, as stupid as a homemade spoiler on a honda civic. Just because it was a lot of work doesn't mean the end product is appealing.
If you read my post, I only have room for 3 or 4 cabinets. I swap them out. I find them all over for cheap, if not free. You just have to look. In real life, that is. Find folks whos pizzaria folded and need the crap hauled away, etc. eBay and other online resources are good sources for parts.
For instance, I got a Tekken cabinet with some monitor problems (which amounted to a tweaking of the vertical hold and tightening the wire harness) for free, I just had to haul it away myself.
It's a cheap hobby. Cheaper by far than collecting Spawn figurines or pokemon cards or 60 bucks a piece PS2 titles, or whatever other lame things slashdotters do for fun.
I'd much rather have one good original than 10000 pac-man clones. And when I'm sick of it, I sell it.
Apple patented that stupid scroll wheel thingy. That alone should be enough to shut 'em down.
There wasnt a lot of fuss about it here, since software patents are only bad when folks other than the almighty Apple take them out.
They are NOT the same. There are subtle differences in every game I've played. Noone notices since they dont have the original to compare too.
If you really love arcade games, collect and restore the machines. I only have room for 3 or 4 upright cabinets, but I pick up old ones, restore them, play them till I'm bored of it, then sell them and start over.
I usually turn enough profit to buy everyone I know a gummi bear.
But, there are tons of subtle differences. Midi tempos are usually off, colors are off. The games dont look the same emulated, even through a real arcade monitor..
Emulation is really neat, technically.. But if you truly love the old classics, keep the old classics around. Rescue that beat up SFII cabinet from the pizza shop, clean it up, repair/replace the controls.. Give it a little elbow grease..
MAME cabinets are just so... ghetto.. Especially when people try and cram every possible control into them.. Two sticks, 12 buttons each, trackballs, spinners, meh.. They look retarded. Many real cabinets were works of functional art.. Look at an old defender control panel.. Designed to function for only one game..
Or vindicators, a cabinet shaped like a giant tank with two crazy throttle levers for control.
I built a BOX out of PLYWOOD!!
Time for sailor moon!
The majority of the video game market is males, aged 18-35.. Google yourself for the demographics, I'm too tired too.
Bitching "what about the children!?" is pointless. There are plenty of age appropriate games out there, Mario, Sonic, Crash Bandicoot are still about.
But, there now exists a generation of adults who grew up on video games. They aren't kids stuff anymore.
The latest big budget kill-fest video game should be measured against the yardstick of the latest big-budget R-rated movie, not the latest disney flick. Compare it to HBO, not Nickelodeon.
A 20 year old gets the jokes and satire in the GTA3 series. An 8 year old doesnt. Games are rated for a reason. Time for some personal and parental responsibility.
That is all.
did you get the idea from your best friend Neal?
Is the whole book like that sample chapter?
Because all I read was descriptions of some old attacks, SMB and UPnP exploits, some proof of concept code..
Nothing about methods or philosophies to protect in the future, it looked more like every other O'Reilly book I've read, just info scraped from relevant forums and faqs to fill pages.
Reads more like a script kiddy cookbook than a tool for Admins.
Oh, he's also squatting on the domain which is all over the police letterhead, was on the cars, etc, etc..
From the article:
But Hackel said that exorbitant demand amounts to extortion.
"He built up the site so that we would rely on it so much and would pay him," Hackel said. "(But) that content belongs to all of us."
The courts will decide.
"You owe me $300,000 for services rendered."
vs.
"Pay me $300,000 or I'll shut you down and keep you out of your data"
What was the oral contract? The Sheriffs dept most likely owns the website and the content on it, and this guy was just hosting it.
If he doesn't want to host it, fine, they take their business elsewhere. He sues for services rendered, etc..
But if he threatened to hold the content hostage, he probably crossed the line into extortion. He was demanding money to release property he didnt have a claim over. It would be like me taking home the sourcecode from my company, and demanding a payoff to give it back.
DA's file charges, not local podunk Sherriff's (With whom I work with every day so I know how little power they actually have). DA's usually aren't very thrilled when Barney Fife shows up with some frivolous overblown charge.
The gravity is only a third of earths as well, so there'd be only a third of the friction to stop it rolling around.
Obviously these guys, who've dedicated their lives to this field of study, seem to think it'll work. I'll take their word for it.
Thats the point of dropping it on the polar caps, where it should be just a huge flat sheet of ice.
It made it across antarctica, if you'd had RTFA.
"We've all seen too many body bags and ball sacks." - Henry Kissenger.
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#include <stolen_sco_code.h>
const char* gender = "Male";