You logic is also faulty. There are specialist book stores, and second hand bookstores who have books that haven't been in print for 50 years. You won't find those on Amazon.
Of course you will. Amazon has a sizable associates program; I've bought out-of-print titles through Amazon from second-hand booksellers for years now. Practically speaking, it's been the best place to at least search for obscure out-of-print books I've ever seen, even considering how I persistently haunt the several specialist and used booksellers in the city.
I can't claim to see any logic in your statements, so I can't fault that, but your assertion is demonstrably false.
What is the nature of the "intellectual property" you are asserting protective ownership of? Is it copyright? Trademark? Patent? Some other unspecified fantasy form of IP (like SCO's undefinable "Linux stole it!" IP)?
If it's not copyright, aren't you violating DMCA by invoking Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown?
If it's patent, which one and when was it filed?
Ditto for trademark. Are you claiming, for instance, the board design is trademarked?
If it's copyright, what elements? Are you claiming copyright over the phrase "Double letter score" or something? Are you claiming that Scrabulous has written instructions for the game which infringe your copyrighted written instructions for Scrabble?
Or, most likely, aren't you just making this crap up and trying to bully on-line competition into giving up?
Really, isn't it fact that you have nothing going other than empty bravado, vague and unverifiable assertions of mysterious IP ownership, and a burgeoning legal budget? And we saw how well that worked for SCO. Even if you're picking on the little guy instead of tilting at large and ill-tempered windmills, you can't win. Step back and relax a little. If you want into the online gaming arena, get in honestly and compete on merit.
Obtaining and using a persons identity isn't theft because it's impersonation fraud.
Hey, there's a guy out here named Bill who disagrees with you:
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 't is something, nothing;
'T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
-- William Shakespeare, Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Although I have to admit that the "which not enriches him" he got wrong.
Objectively, though, I have to wonder if e-voting machines are statistically worse or better at reporting results than old-school mechanical voting tabulators, mark-sense counters and "fill-in-the-bubble" paper ballots, or even hand-counting.
The major hit in e-voting, as far as I can tell, is the lack of after-the-fact verifiability (a shared issue with mechanical tabulators, I think), commodity software and hardware making the skills needed to hack results almost ubiquitous, and the perception that the vendors involved have political agendas.
But yeah, I'd find a way to absentee vote before I cast a ballot on an e-voting box.
Does anyone know how to set up a Fedora FC4 system to ignore specific networks ?
I did it by switching to Kubuntu. That said, I think the practical part of that "fix" action was using KDE Network Manager, which seems to persist the most recent network selection unless it's not available. Between KNetwork and KDE Wallet to remember the WPA PSK, reconnecting to my wlan seems pretty hands-off to me.
Speaking of which, I cried the day my Northgate OmniKey 102 stopped working. Now THAT was one awesome keyboard.
Yeah, I hope someone (competent and relevant, not PC World) comes up with a "10 Best Keyboards" list. I'd nominate my still-functional OmniKey Ultra and it would win.
It even came with an extra set of keycaps and a dip switch to let you pick where you wanted Ctrl to live.
It's even better than that: one of those dip switch settings, and some optional keycaps, et Voilà! you have an Amiga keyboard. Which is what my Ultra is. And in that configuration, "Control" is where God intended: to the left of "A". Definitely the best keyboard in the house; it actually encourages me to use my Amiga 3000 for practical stuff rather than as a museum piece.
* It's way too big and takes up too much room on the desk
You make room for the important things in life.
* The distracting clicking noise is even worse with a room full of them clicking away
WTF are you doing in a room full of them? And even if you are, learning to focus is an important and worthwhile skill.
* The keys are too high and require too much effort to press (probably done to appease the typewriter diehards in the 1980s)
I learned to type on an ASR33, kid. On one of those, keythrow was measured in inches and keyforce measured in pounds. (Slight exaggeration, but only slight). The Model M keyboard is all lightness and feather-touch in comparison. And I don't get the cheap shot at "typewriter diehards". Do you mean "competent touch-typists"?
* Print Screen / Scroll Lock / Pause are relics of the 1980s
I use "PrintScrn" all the time. (It's how you capture screenshots on Windows, both full-screen and individual windows. Useful for putting together documentation. It's also how you capture screenshots in WoW, in case something marvelous happens like you succeed in climbing that unclimbable cliff and you're looking at unrendered nullness, for instance.) As to "Pause"... sometimes it's good to look at the BIOS messages before GRUB fires up. But Scroll lock, sure, I never understood what that was about.
All in all, I think you're just suffering from an "Old is bad, new is good" bias problem. Give yourself 20 years and you'll be defending mute buttons and volume keys on some Web 4.0 blog or something.
Besides, if you need your datacenter to be really secure, there's always the 'old military bunker' option instead.
Yeah... aren't there numerous decommissioned American ICBM launch complexes out there? I mean, they'd need mega refurbishing, and their power and connectivity are none too great right now, but at least you'd have the "indestructibility" criterion satisfied.
and seawater is perhaps the perfect erasing mechanism for touchy data.
Hmmm... I didn't know they had invented water-soluble disk drives. The electronics will fry, but the platters will be just fine, ready for the eager squadrons of forensic hax0rs.
No, in truth, thermite is the perfect erasing mechanism for touchy data. But you'll never get to install it unless you already work for a three-letter agency.
"Open" is the "turbo" of the 2000s. Marketing latches onto "hot" memes like walleyes hitting jigs in spring. They can't help it. It's instinctive.
Objective (or subjective) truthfulness or applicability is irrelevant. If you can hand-wave and retrofit a coherent explanation onto the appropriation of a piece of mindshare, all the better. But that's optional.
I guess the real story here is that a/. submitter is insufficiently jaded for the real world. And the editors are credulous and unassuming, innocent as the driven snow.
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The core of both is that you smack at a brightly-colored construct and hope something good comes out.
Damn. You're right.
I'll never be able to look at Illidan the same way again.
to assert that "Vista Not Included" actually bothers anyone beside Steve Ballmer.
You logic is also faulty. There are specialist book stores, and second hand bookstores who have books that haven't been in print for 50 years. You won't find those on Amazon.
Of course you will. Amazon has a sizable associates program; I've bought out-of-print titles through Amazon from second-hand booksellers for years now. Practically speaking, it's been the best place to at least search for obscure out-of-print books I've ever seen, even considering how I persistently haunt the several specialist and used booksellers in the city.
I can't claim to see any logic in your statements, so I can't fault that, but your assertion is demonstrably false.
Yet another game where I can get ganked by Chinese budget farmers and their bots.
Which, as any WoW player can attest, are buggy and half-assed without benefit of being ports. Regardless of platform.
I kid, I kid... just another crackhead complaining about the poor quality control of our addictive psychoactive of choice.
TFA is infected with "Vibrant Media IntelliTxt" advertising hotlinks. Mouse carefully or browse with NoScript or something.
- What is the nature of the "intellectual property" you are asserting protective ownership of? Is it copyright? Trademark? Patent? Some other unspecified fantasy form of IP (like SCO's undefinable "Linux stole it!" IP)?
- If it's not copyright, aren't you violating DMCA by invoking Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown?
- If it's patent, which one and when was it filed?
- Ditto for trademark. Are you claiming, for instance, the board design is trademarked?
- If it's copyright, what elements? Are you claiming copyright over the phrase "Double letter score" or something? Are you claiming that Scrabulous has written instructions for the game which infringe your copyrighted written instructions for Scrabble?
- Or, most likely, aren't you just making this crap up and trying to bully on-line competition into giving up?
Really, isn't it fact that you have nothing going other than empty bravado, vague and unverifiable assertions of mysterious IP ownership, and a burgeoning legal budget? And we saw how well that worked for SCO. Even if you're picking on the little guy instead of tilting at large and ill-tempered windmills, you can't win. Step back and relax a little. If you want into the online gaming arena, get in honestly and compete on merit.Yeah, I was going for the lame anti-MS joke.
What saddens me is that the only moderation I've gotten up to this point is +1 Insightful.
/. moderation makes Baby Jeebus cry.
The article is critical of Microsoft. Of course they will believe.
Well, I think you're missing an important point that may swing the credibility of this story the other way.
The crux of the story is that Microsoft followed up on a problem ticket. And that strains the belief of almost any intelligent observer.
Besides, the d20 system is dying....
I refuse to believe that until Warcraft confirms it.
"The Jigsaw Man", 1967.
According to http://www.larryniven.org/biblio/, this was his 22nd published story and the first organ transplant story.
The first Gil Hamilton story was "The Organleggers" in 1969.
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
it's not just old couples who can be surprised with a late-life batch of kids. (No South Korea jokes, plz)
to be exempt in that first round, all I can say is
Get offa my lawn, you terrorist kids!
Obtaining and using a persons identity isn't theft because it's impersonation fraud.
Hey, there's a guy out here named Bill who disagrees with you:
-- William Shakespeare, Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Although I have to admit that the "which not enriches him" he got wrong.
Buying Diebold.
Objectively, though, I have to wonder if e-voting machines are statistically worse or better at reporting results than old-school mechanical voting tabulators, mark-sense counters and "fill-in-the-bubble" paper ballots, or even hand-counting.
The major hit in e-voting, as far as I can tell, is the lack of after-the-fact verifiability (a shared issue with mechanical tabulators, I think), commodity software and hardware making the skills needed to hack results almost ubiquitous, and the perception that the vendors involved have political agendas.
But yeah, I'd find a way to absentee vote before I cast a ballot on an e-voting box.
Does anyone know how to set up a Fedora FC4 system to ignore specific networks ?
I did it by switching to Kubuntu. That said, I think the practical part of that "fix" action was using KDE Network Manager, which seems to persist the most recent network selection unless it's not available. Between KNetwork and KDE Wallet to remember the WPA PSK, reconnecting to my wlan seems pretty hands-off to me.
Speaking of which, I cried the day my Northgate OmniKey 102 stopped working. Now THAT was one awesome keyboard.
Yeah, I hope someone (competent and relevant, not PC World) comes up with a "10 Best Keyboards" list. I'd nominate my still-functional OmniKey Ultra and it would win.
It even came with an extra set of keycaps and a dip switch to let you pick where you wanted Ctrl to live.
It's even better than that: one of those dip switch settings, and some optional keycaps, et Voilà! you have an Amiga keyboard. Which is what my Ultra is. And in that configuration, "Control" is where God intended: to the left of "A". Definitely the best keyboard in the house; it actually encourages me to use my Amiga 3000 for practical stuff rather than as a museum piece.
* It's way too big and takes up too much room on the desk
You make room for the important things in life.
* The distracting clicking noise is even worse with a room full of them clicking away
WTF are you doing in a room full of them? And even if you are, learning to focus is an important and worthwhile skill.
* The keys are too high and require too much effort to press (probably done to appease the typewriter diehards in the 1980s)
I learned to type on an ASR33, kid. On one of those, keythrow was measured in inches and keyforce measured in pounds. (Slight exaggeration, but only slight). The Model M keyboard is all lightness and feather-touch in comparison. And I don't get the cheap shot at "typewriter diehards". Do you mean "competent touch-typists"?
* Print Screen / Scroll Lock / Pause are relics of the 1980s
I use "PrintScrn" all the time. (It's how you capture screenshots on Windows, both full-screen and individual windows. Useful for putting together documentation. It's also how you capture screenshots in WoW, in case something marvelous happens like you succeed in climbing that unclimbable cliff and you're looking at unrendered nullness, for instance.) As to "Pause"... sometimes it's good to look at the BIOS messages before GRUB fires up. But Scroll lock, sure, I never understood what that was about.
All in all, I think you're just suffering from an "Old is bad, new is good" bias problem. Give yourself 20 years and you'll be defending mute buttons and volume keys on some Web 4.0 blog or something.
Whoever designed that keyboard must have had the same streak of masochism as those who get enjoyment out of putting pinholes in condoms.
Sadism. You mean sadism. Sadism is putting pinholes in condoms.
Masochism is putting pinholes in condoms while you're wearing them. With a nailgun.
Besides, if you need your datacenter to be really secure, there's always the 'old military bunker' option instead.
Yeah... aren't there numerous decommissioned American ICBM launch complexes out there? I mean, they'd need mega refurbishing, and their power and connectivity are none too great right now, but at least you'd have the "indestructibility" criterion satisfied.
and seawater is perhaps the perfect erasing mechanism for touchy data.
Hmmm... I didn't know they had invented water-soluble disk drives. The electronics will fry, but the platters will be just fine, ready for the eager squadrons of forensic hax0rs.
No, in truth, thermite is the perfect erasing mechanism for touchy data. But you'll never get to install it unless you already work for a three-letter agency.
Marketing? Dishonest?
I'm shocked, shocked.
Sigh.
"Open" is the "turbo" of the 2000s. Marketing latches onto "hot" memes like walleyes hitting jigs in spring. They can't help it. It's instinctive.
Objective (or subjective) truthfulness or applicability is irrelevant. If you can hand-wave and retrofit a coherent explanation onto the appropriation of a piece of mindshare, all the better. But that's optional.
I guess the real story here is that a /. submitter is insufficiently jaded for the real world. And the editors are credulous and unassuming, innocent as the driven snow.
We won't be. We don't qualify.
Now, if you want "Borderline-moronic design", humanity fits the bill just fine.
Which you downloaded offa bittorrent...