With all the epic music and all, it's almost like it was when we were watching the OJ Simpson trial, now isn't it?
Seriously though, I think the networks are doing the best they can to present the news. This is how they cover everything else. Everything has to have a catchy title and graphic. Remember "Crisis in Kosovo?"
This stinks like the tobacco lawsuit that was supposed to fund treating sick people in America who became sick from smoking, but instead, I keep hearing that it's going to make up for budget shortfalls. In other words, it's going to fund, oh, whatever.
You mention that it might help if there were laws against forging headers on e-mail. Does anyone who reads this board know if there is any law concerning the return address on postal mail that might be something to compare that to?
Red Hat went to the trouble to put an image of a hat on the taskbar on the latest RH that I have installed. Oh wait a minute, let's patent changing the icons on our taskbars.
They mentioned the SCO suit to be brought against Linux sellers by David Boies. Isn't he the same lawyer who represented the USA vs Microsoft and Al Gore vs USA?
that when I play DOOM ]I[ on Athlon 1800 XP with 512 MB RAM and a geforce 4 mx, my frame rate will be reasured is seconds per frame, rather than frames per second?
Well, actually, when I was in high school, someone put me on a mailing list for information about Jewish geneology. I don't use that address any more, but the perpetrator told me to me face that Jewish geneology was so... me, even though I'm not Jewish.
I tried this in order to upgrade the version of Windows on my dual boot system to XP. Unfortunately, after the virus warning popped up twice, and I pressed the "any" key on my keyboard to acknowledge that I knew of the attempted write to my boot sector, the installer just puked and and had to let the damn thing trash my boot sector and then restore it manually.
I don't buy music often. I would like to know, and I'm sure many of you reading this board can help with this; is there a simple way to know if a particular artist is affiliated with the RIAA?
An old version of Doom for Windows that I have automatically installs DirectX without asking. I think that it's actually DirectX, not DirectX 3, DirectX 5, DirectX 9, or whatever.
That's a great point you make, but be aware that some companies are already taking countermeasures against this technique. I've seen this done with many websites that require a subscription.
Here's how it works. Many of you have probably seen this before. "Please enter your e-mail address so that we may spam you mercilessly: getALife@blank_you.com. Thank you, an activation code will be sent to you shortly at the address you specified; thank you for downloading our spam-ware."
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
That's exactly how it reads, everyone. I think it get's trampled over on a regular basis. It ought to go right out the door right after pesky Ammendments #1 and #2.
I don't think that's a very tough situation at all. They would impose a stiff penalty when you got caught. How would they catch you? Imagine a routine traffic stop.
"Excuse me sir, I'll need to see your license, registration, and your GPS number, please."
So, to register the car in the state you have to have GPS installed? I suppose that makes it better for tourists than taxing the gas (or do they plan on doing both?)
Of course they plan on doing both. I can imagine that many of you on this board will think I'm nuts, but keep in mind we're talking about left-coast liberals here. Liberals never reduce taxes on anything. There is no limit as to how far they will go to control us, snoop on us, and take our money at the same time. I, too, am glad that I don't live in Oregon. Anyway you look at it, this looks like A Bad Thing.
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Imagine how awesome it would have been in SW EP1 if you hadn't seen Darth Maul's dual blade lightsabre weapon in the preview.
Unless nanoengineers are incredibly sloppy, maliciously so, then it's not going to happen by accident.
*cough* *cought*
So, when we have nanotechnology, we need to make sure MS doesn't get ahold of it, right?
We'll be talking about whether to program our nanobots with the IEEE programming specification, or license the MS binary encoder.
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Of course, the new MSWORD 2003 files will look something like my comment\n
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No, get me a daisy-wheel printer *NT*
With all the epic music and all, it's almost like it was when we were watching the OJ Simpson trial, now isn't it?
Seriously though, I think the networks are doing the best they can to present the news. This is how they cover everything else. Everything has to have a catchy title and graphic. Remember "Crisis in Kosovo?"
This stinks like the tobacco lawsuit that was supposed to fund treating sick people in America who became sick from smoking, but instead, I keep hearing that it's going to make up for budget shortfalls. In other words, it's going to fund, oh, whatever.
You mention that it might help if there were laws against forging headers on e-mail. Does anyone who reads this board know if there is any law concerning the return address on postal mail that might be something to compare that to?
No, don't patent the space *character* in file names. Patent the space *bar*. Imagine the royalties you could collect from that.
Red Hat went to the trouble to put an image of a hat on the taskbar on the latest RH that I have installed. Oh wait a minute, let's patent changing the icons on our taskbars.
They mentioned the SCO suit to be brought against Linux sellers by David Boies. Isn't he the same lawyer who represented the USA vs Microsoft and Al Gore vs USA?
that when I play DOOM ]I[ on Athlon 1800 XP with 512 MB RAM and a geforce 4 mx, my frame rate will be reasured is seconds per frame, rather than frames per second?
Well, actually, when I was in high school, someone put me on a mailing list for information about Jewish geneology. I don't use that address any more, but the perpetrator told me to me face that Jewish geneology was so ... me, even though I'm not Jewish.
Second, I just checked David Coursey's latest article in ZDNET, and it came up with an advertisement for that TurboTax "Boot Track" Virus. How ironic.
You say it should be banned? I ask, "banned by whom?"
I tried this in order to upgrade the version of Windows on my dual boot system to XP. Unfortunately, after the virus warning popped up twice, and I pressed the "any" key on my keyboard to acknowledge that I knew of the attempted write to my boot sector, the installer just puked and and had to let the damn thing trash my boot sector and then restore it manually.
What? Teres a previaew button.?
YES, YES, that's exactly correct! It's asymptotic. Mod parent up.
The amount of tax on paying tax would be A/(100%-x) where x is the rate of taxation and A is the amount of tax originally paid.
I don't buy music often. I would like to know, and I'm sure many of you reading this board can help with this; is there a simple way to know if a particular artist is affiliated with the RIAA?
An old version of Doom for Windows that I have automatically installs DirectX without asking. I think that it's actually DirectX, not DirectX 3, DirectX 5, DirectX 9, or whatever.
Here's how it works. Many of you have probably seen this before. "Please enter your e-mail address so that we may spam you mercilessly: getALife@blank_you.com. Thank you, an activation code will be sent to you shortly at the address you specified; thank you for downloading our spam-ware."
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That's exactly how it reads, everyone. I think it get's trampled over on a regular basis. It ought to go right out the door right after pesky Ammendments #1 and #2.
"Excuse me sir, I'll need to see your license, registration, and your GPS number, please."
So, to register the car in the state you have to have GPS installed? I suppose that makes it better for tourists than taxing the gas (or do they plan on doing both?)
Of course they plan on doing both. I can imagine that many of you on this board will think I'm nuts, but keep in mind we're talking about left-coast liberals here. Liberals never reduce taxes on anything. There is no limit as to how far they will go to control us, snoop on us, and take our money at the same time. I, too, am glad that I don't live in Oregon.
Anyway you look at it, this looks like A Bad Thing.