Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the point of the GP was that once the MIT students hear about it, the occurrences at Harvard of building lights blinking on and off or the temperature fluctuating wildly during the day would be non-stop.
What about emulating an HDCP-compliant device in order to receive and decrypt the data stream (as opposed to pushing it onto a display device)? Or would this be pointless due to the high bandwidth?
1. This has zero to do with the Patriot Act. Absolutely zero. 2. While the decryption and reverse engineering of the code might have something to do with the DMCA (assuming Maxxuss is in the US), the DMCA has nothing to do with partisan politics. It's been noted repeatedly on Slashdot that many members of both the Republican and Democratic parties are more than happy to sell their constituents out to the media industry.
I'm sure we're really not that far off from having every desk come standard with an embedded system built right into its top.
MCP: I was planning to hit the Pentagon next week. Dillinger: The Pentagon? MCP: It shouldn't be any harder than any other company. But now, this is what I get for using humans. Dillinger: Now, wait a minute, I wrote you. MCP: I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.
I wish this would be the case, but time and again, the electronics industry, despite being at least one order of magnitude larger than the entertainment industry, caves in to every demand of the ??AA. There are small electronics companies which want to make consumer goods that include functionality that users want, but the big guys generally do what they can to create licensed technologies that force all manufacturers to abide by even stricter rules than the law specifies.
Let's see... Indie developers bring us Darwinia, Oasis, Puzzle Pirates, and Weird Worlds, while Electronic Arts brings us Madden 1994 through 2006 (and, presumably, beyond). Who's doing the real innovation here?
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Actually, it's more like this: Pepsi does a deal with Hershey that if you buy a bottle of Pepsi and a Hershey bar, you can drink the Pepsi and eat the Hershey bar and everything's fine. But if you instead buy a Pepsi and a Three Musketeers (an M&M/Mars product) and eat those at the same time, you'll get sick and spew your Pepsi all over the wall.
Exactly. Most of the media is like this, rewriting AP Wire or what have you, so that they'll have more content to sell (to the consumer or to advertisers).
Time and Newsweek didn't get their "I Shot My Friend" VP stories out until the whole ordeal was ten days old and every possible fact and viewpoint had already been published a zillion times. Fox News ran a story on Michael Jackson on their website every week until he moved out of the country and beyond the reach of the paparazzi. Despite being local news, local news shows will run national news stories, only to have them repeated by the network's news show a half hour later. Hell, rehashing news stories seen elsewhere is the entire point of Slashdot, and sometimes the submitters don't even have the courtesy to rewrite the story in their own words.
Like you say, this really isn't anything new at all - it's just that we have a new medium for the same old malarkey.
Savings earn interest. Interest means you get more money. Sure, the interest would eventually be taxed when you spend it, but you'd be better off overall. In the meantime, the invested money provides capital to help businesses grow.
The thing is, money doesn't generate utility for you while it's in savings. If you win a million dollars in the lottery, stash it away in the bank, and keep living off your meager wage as a sanitary technician, and then you die never touching that million dollars again, what good did it do you? You didn't derive any utility from the money, so why should it be taxed? On the other hand, if you cash the lottery check and go buy a million dollar yacht, you do derive utility from the money, and so it should be taxed.
The best sales tax plans offer some sort of exemption for basic needs. In some plans, it exempts groceries, clothing (within some limit), and other goods that everyone needs to survive. In other plans, it's done as a "prebate" where everyone gets a check from the government each year in an amount that covers the taxes people would pay on their first N dollars of spending (which presumably goes toward basic needs).
The use of the term "prion" might not be absolutely correct since it was originally used to describe an infectious agent. However, the idea that a protein with two conformations - one as produced by a simpler biological process, and another which can alter a protein that's in the first conformation by putting it in the second conformation - might be fundamental to early biological systems, is a valid hypothesis.
In fact, it's possible (perhaps likely) that the first self-propagating (and therefore, arguably biological) chemical systems had nothing to do with RNA at all. But once the RNA (and then DNA) regimes took over, surviving instances of those chemical systems most likely were food for more advanced systems, which explains why evidence of the earliest parts of life's evolutionary trajectory is so hard to come by.
Not exactly correct. The pre-order pack let you get in during the ending stages of the beta test for 10 days. It also let you start playing this past Friday instead of waiting until Tuesday (tomorrow) (or whenever you manage to pick up a copy of the full release game), which is only four days of early play, not 10. There was also a +1 amulet of natural armor for your character if you pre-ordered.
I think the limit on pre-order keys was probably more based on an effort to manage and balance server populations before full release rather than evidence of ineptitude or an effort to screw you over personally.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see a politician who's up for reelection in November introduce and grandstand over some new legistlation that would have protected this guy.
For that matter, if this guy is convicted, he'd be an excellent candidate for a governor's pardon. The question is whether the current (or future incoming) Governator believes in maintaining the sanctity of the voting process or not.
All the major game retailers have an online presence, and they generally have a better selection of computer games online than you'll find at the brick-and-mortar stores. Also, a lot of computer retailers (CompUSA, for example) have a pretty wide selection at both their physical locations and their website. Finally, there's always Amazon.com.
Really, it makes sense that the market for computer games is shifting online. A big portion of computer users have Internet access now, so retailers can sell the computer games that way, freeing up store space for the console gamers who are less likely to be able to order online.
Although I consider myself fairly well versed in civics, I have to admit I didn't know that.
But from a more careful reading of the amendment, it seems that the onus is on the electors rather than the candidate, and only those electors from Texas. What's more, the system of dispute resolution is defined in 3 USC 15, which leaves it up to the House and Senate to decide whether or not to accept the votes of the electors.
In any case, the most drastic change that would have happened would be President Bush and Vice President Lieberman, at least from 2001 to 2005.
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I see somebody needs their nerd card revoked, if they don't get that reference.
If the point was to be pedantic about the Constitution as a whole versus the Bill of Rights, I'll admit, I was being sloppy with my language.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the point of the GP was that once the MIT students hear about it, the occurrences at Harvard of building lights blinking on and off or the temperature fluctuating wildly during the day would be non-stop.
The Supreme Court has held that the 14th Amendment causes all of the restrictions provided by the US Constitution to be applied to the states as well.
What about emulating an HDCP-compliant device in order to receive and decrypt the data stream (as opposed to pushing it onto a display device)? Or would this be pointless due to the high bandwidth?
Next stop: HDCP!
(I hope.)
1. This has zero to do with the Patriot Act. Absolutely zero.
2. While the decryption and reverse engineering of the code might have something to do with the DMCA (assuming Maxxuss is in the US), the DMCA has nothing to do with partisan politics. It's been noted repeatedly on Slashdot that many members of both the Republican and Democratic parties are more than happy to sell their constituents out to the media industry.
I'm sure we're really not that far off from having every desk come standard with an embedded system built right into its top.
MCP: I was planning to hit the Pentagon next week.
Dillinger: The Pentagon?
MCP: It shouldn't be any harder than any other company. But now, this is what I get for using humans.
Dillinger: Now, wait a minute, I wrote you.
MCP: I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.
I wish this would be the case, but time and again, the electronics industry, despite being at least one order of magnitude larger than the entertainment industry, caves in to every demand of the ??AA. There are small electronics companies which want to make consumer goods that include functionality that users want, but the big guys generally do what they can to create licensed technologies that force all manufacturers to abide by even stricter rules than the law specifies.
Let's see... Indie developers bring us Darwinia, Oasis, Puzzle Pirates, and Weird Worlds, while Electronic Arts brings us Madden 1994 through 2006 (and, presumably, beyond). Who's doing the real innovation here?
Actually, it's more like this: Pepsi does a deal with Hershey that if you buy a bottle of Pepsi and a Hershey bar, you can drink the Pepsi and eat the Hershey bar and everything's fine. But if you instead buy a Pepsi and a Three Musketeers (an M&M/Mars product) and eat those at the same time, you'll get sick and spew your Pepsi all over the wall.
Exactly. Most of the media is like this, rewriting AP Wire or what have you, so that they'll have more content to sell (to the consumer or to advertisers).
Time and Newsweek didn't get their "I Shot My Friend" VP stories out until the whole ordeal was ten days old and every possible fact and viewpoint had already been published a zillion times. Fox News ran a story on Michael Jackson on their website every week until he moved out of the country and beyond the reach of the paparazzi. Despite being local news, local news shows will run national news stories, only to have them repeated by the network's news show a half hour later. Hell, rehashing news stories seen elsewhere is the entire point of Slashdot, and sometimes the submitters don't even have the courtesy to rewrite the story in their own words.
Like you say, this really isn't anything new at all - it's just that we have a new medium for the same old malarkey.
Savings earn interest. Interest means you get more money. Sure, the interest would eventually be taxed when you spend it, but you'd be better off overall. In the meantime, the invested money provides capital to help businesses grow.
The thing is, money doesn't generate utility for you while it's in savings. If you win a million dollars in the lottery, stash it away in the bank, and keep living off your meager wage as a sanitary technician, and then you die never touching that million dollars again, what good did it do you? You didn't derive any utility from the money, so why should it be taxed? On the other hand, if you cash the lottery check and go buy a million dollar yacht, you do derive utility from the money, and so it should be taxed.
The best sales tax plans offer some sort of exemption for basic needs. In some plans, it exempts groceries, clothing (within some limit), and other goods that everyone needs to survive. In other plans, it's done as a "prebate" where everyone gets a check from the government each year in an amount that covers the taxes people would pay on their first N dollars of spending (which presumably goes toward basic needs).
Instead of trolling, why not try to educate.
The use of the term "prion" might not be absolutely correct since it was originally used to describe an infectious agent. However, the idea that a protein with two conformations - one as produced by a simpler biological process, and another which can alter a protein that's in the first conformation by putting it in the second conformation - might be fundamental to early biological systems, is a valid hypothesis.
In fact, it's possible (perhaps likely) that the first self-propagating (and therefore, arguably biological) chemical systems had nothing to do with RNA at all. But once the RNA (and then DNA) regimes took over, surviving instances of those chemical systems most likely were food for more advanced systems, which explains why evidence of the earliest parts of life's evolutionary trajectory is so hard to come by.
a new step in an industry war for control of home movie viewing.
To quote a tagline:
Whoever wins, we lose.
Remember Neverwinter Nights?
Remember Pool of Radiance? (And no, I'm not talking about that hideous bastard child from Ubisoft.)
Not exactly correct. The pre-order pack let you get in during the ending stages of the beta test for 10 days. It also let you start playing this past Friday instead of waiting until Tuesday (tomorrow) (or whenever you manage to pick up a copy of the full release game), which is only four days of early play, not 10. There was also a +1 amulet of natural armor for your character if you pre-ordered.
I think the limit on pre-order keys was probably more based on an effort to manage and balance server populations before full release rather than evidence of ineptitude or an effort to screw you over personally.
A true "whistle-blower" doesn't seek for public recognition,
Considering he's facing prison time, I'm sure he'd rather be anonymous now.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see a politician who's up for reelection in November introduce and grandstand over some new legistlation that would have protected this guy.
For that matter, if this guy is convicted, he'd be an excellent candidate for a governor's pardon. The question is whether the current (or future incoming) Governator believes in maintaining the sanctity of the voting process or not.
That's why you buy a good 7.1 setup today, so you don't have to replace your receiver next year.
Amusing, considering all the people that already will have to replace their HDTVs next year.
Back Alley Organ Vendor: I take lungs now, gills come next week.
All the major game retailers have an online presence, and they generally have a better selection of computer games online than you'll find at the brick-and-mortar stores. Also, a lot of computer retailers (CompUSA, for example) have a pretty wide selection at both their physical locations and their website. Finally, there's always Amazon.com.
Really, it makes sense that the market for computer games is shifting online. A big portion of computer users have Internet access now, so retailers can sell the computer games that way, freeing up store space for the console gamers who are less likely to be able to order online.
the sex-fests that go on in the olympic "village"
It takes a village to raise a child.
Or at least to conceive one.
Although I consider myself fairly well versed in civics, I have to admit I didn't know that.
But from a more careful reading of the amendment, it seems that the onus is on the electors rather than the candidate, and only those electors from Texas. What's more, the system of dispute resolution is defined in 3 USC 15, which leaves it up to the House and Senate to decide whether or not to accept the votes of the electors.
In any case, the most drastic change that would have happened would be President Bush and Vice President Lieberman, at least from 2001 to 2005.
Cheney ran for Vice President of Wyoming?