I don't see how fighting terror has to in any way touch on free speech, unless we are talking about not permitting people to glorify terrorism. The last I can understand, as when terror occurs in a series of suicidal acts, each inspired by the foregoing one (and the waves of lionization lauded upon its perpetrators), I think it can reasonably be stated that the glorifying of past acts is in fact incitement of the next such act. That speech should be culpable in the same vein as shouting fire in a movie theatre.
... when hiring a lawyer to defend you against charges of stealing music costs so much more than the computer and ISP service you used to steal the music.
What do the labels actually DO anyhow? Apple should approach artists, offer them double what they last got from an old-school record label, and tell them, "We'll sell your music in the form consumers actually prefer". They don't need shelf space (who sees these alleged "shelves", anyhow?), and offering double the cut to artists will resonate and be cheap to offer, given Apple's ITMS overhead.
If they just removed the videos whose popularity placed them in the top 95%, they'd probably get them all, and the 6 videos that were erroneously snared could have their authors petition for re-instatement.
One thing I did just 2 days ago has stopped the CAPTCHA attacks cold. I modified my registration page just slightly to alter it's URL. Now, if some lackeys are manually doing every phase of the registration, this is no help at all, but they're trying to be more efficient than that. They don't make their lackey's click the "register" link, and then click on the link confirming they are over 13, etc, etc. Rather, they have tools that automatically traverse these paths or mimic their traversal, and those tools require your installation to literally be identical to all PHPBB installations, as it is their syntax it is capable of parsing and triggering.
The result is that no lackey, apparently, is ever getting rushed right to where s/he sees a CAPTCHA and has a textfield into which to type its text. I've fallen off the radar by opting out of a monoculture in a very tiny fashion. I'm glad to think I've turned the spammer's trick (obfuscation to defeat automated tools) against them.
How aggravating would that "fix" be? The real answer is to use an external sniping service and let the fools who will not pay for their idiocy. The eBay proxy bidding system is DESIGNED to vicitimize those who use it the moment a smarter person snipes them. The practice of external sniping proxy use actually delivers the bidding mode eBay promises and knowingly fails to deliver.
Why is it that Craigslist has to be so ugly? It's as bad as MySpace, but in a completely different way. It used to be that good sites that didn't make your eyes bleed succeeded (google.com, zombo.com, etc)
In the West, over 80% of deaths occur to mature people. They also are responsible for dampening 75% of unrealized fun. Rather than learning how to live with this debilitating syndrome, can't we work on eradicating it?
Even the catastrophic loss of battleships when their powder magazines go off are not, technically "exploding". Those dramatic disruptions of machinery and men are termed, "deflagrations". It is not a euphemism, but a technically more exact term related to the speed of the burning event and the pressures resulting. Similarly exact terms delineate high (e.g.: C4) and low (e.g.: cordite) explosives.
While I think inexact expressions are a problem these day, I agree this is a silly term to discuss in a popular news website. It is a footnote in terms of the import of the event.
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I always expressed this as, "C++ is a gutter language"
I don't see how fighting terror has to in any way touch on free speech, unless we are talking about not permitting people to glorify terrorism. The last I can understand, as when terror occurs in a series of suicidal acts, each inspired by the foregoing one (and the waves of lionization lauded upon its perpetrators), I think it can reasonably be stated that the glorifying of past acts is in fact incitement of the next such act. That speech should be culpable in the same vein as shouting fire in a movie theatre.
... when hiring a lawyer to defend you against charges of stealing music costs so much more than the computer and ISP service you used to steal the music.
Just as blogs are the personal homepages of the new millenium.
Has no one looked into how to withstand not minutes but DAYS of Muzak?
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What do the labels actually DO anyhow? Apple should approach artists, offer them double what they last got from an old-school record label, and tell them, "We'll sell your music in the form consumers actually prefer". They don't need shelf space (who sees these alleged "shelves", anyhow?), and offering double the cut to artists will resonate and be cheap to offer, given Apple's ITMS overhead.
Inform the clients that their data is preserved on a network of unpatched legacy Microsoft systems and let them connect the dots.
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If they just removed the videos whose popularity placed them in the top 95%, they'd probably get them all, and the 6 videos that were erroneously snared could have their authors petition for re-instatement.
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Sit in front of a monitor set to 60 Hz for 20 minutes and tell me you're going to be on strobe glasses watch.
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One thing I did just 2 days ago has stopped the CAPTCHA attacks cold. I modified my registration page just slightly to alter it's URL. Now, if some lackeys are manually doing every phase of the registration, this is no help at all, but they're trying to be more efficient than that. They don't make their lackey's click the "register" link, and then click on the link confirming they are over 13, etc, etc. Rather, they have tools that automatically traverse these paths or mimic their traversal, and those tools require your installation to literally be identical to all PHPBB installations, as it is their syntax it is capable of parsing and triggering.
The result is that no lackey, apparently, is ever getting rushed right to where s/he sees a CAPTCHA and has a textfield into which to type its text. I've fallen off the radar by opting out of a monoculture in a very tiny fashion. I'm glad to think I've turned the spammer's trick (obfuscation to defeat automated tools) against them.
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That's nothing. I once saw a guy spinning 20 plates on sticks -- all at one time!
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I always thought eBay was just a secret name for an attempt to re-launch Be.
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How aggravating would that "fix" be? The real answer is to use an external sniping service and let the fools who will not pay for their idiocy. The eBay proxy bidding system is DESIGNED to vicitimize those who use it the moment a smarter person snipes them. The practice of external sniping proxy use actually delivers the bidding mode eBay promises and knowingly fails to deliver.
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Why is it that Craigslist has to be so ugly? It's as bad as MySpace, but in a completely different way. It used to be that good sites that didn't make your eyes bleed succeeded (google.com, zombo.com, etc)
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Not Slashdotty enough for you?!
Have you any idea how closely fire control (even in 1914) resembled our current world of networked computers?
Passwords (of any length, of any devious degree of randomness) are obscure.
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Rhino3D (NURBS modeling)
I love this app, which is only available on Windows, as it is the most intuitive and powerful app with advanced capabilities, and is fairly priced.
That's only 11 steps. Are you sure this is going to work?
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How about altering the prevailing paradigm?
Did this guy step off the shuttle bus from 1998?
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In the West, over 80% of deaths occur to mature people. They also are responsible for dampening 75% of unrealized fun. Rather than learning how to live with this debilitating syndrome, can't we work on eradicating it?
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Isn't this just similar to how people recruit an audience for an infomercial?
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Oops. Cordite is not an explosive. I think black powder is the example to cite of a low explosive.
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Even the catastrophic loss of battleships when their powder magazines go off are not, technically "exploding". Those dramatic disruptions of machinery and men are termed, "deflagrations". It is not a euphemism, but a technically more exact term related to the speed of the burning event and the pressures resulting. Similarly exact terms delineate high (e.g.: C4) and low (e.g.: cordite) explosives.
While I think inexact expressions are a problem these day, I agree this is a silly term to discuss in a popular news website. It is a footnote in terms of the import of the event.
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My Jack Russell Terrier never turned a profit, but we didn't kill him for lack of performance.
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