So if I am distracted while I am driving and I accidently run over someone and they die, I should get the chair because "hey, the crime of killing a person is equal to the crime of killing a person"? Hacking into someone's webserver and adding the line to their webpage that I own their box should equal a punishment but that punnishment should not be the same as hacking into a computer and deleting their harddrive or changing the balance in my bank account. It's like saying that every theif should get ten years in prison regardless of what they stole; it sound nice on paper but do you really think anyone should go to jail for ten years for stealing a candybar?
I can buy an excellent used car for less than a segway. What would you rather: a 5 grand glorified pogostick that can go 11 miles an hour or a 94 Ford Mustang that can go 110 miles an hour. Secondly there is the chick factor: you think your going to pick up girls on a Segway? Maybe if they ride piggyback...
You mean software developers can't dodge bullets, leap hundreds of feet, download centuries worth of martial arts expertise into their brains, and bend spoons with their minds? I feel cheated...
Hell has just frozen over. It would also appear that the devil has cornered the market in ice skate manufacturing. Stay tuned for further devilopements...
Before we all go rushing off into a discussion about how much more powerful and smaller computer will be in the future, perhaps we should start discussing who will need such systems. It's fine and dandy to come up with a way to build 60 GHZ processors but who would be willing to buy such a CPU? How much computing power do we need before we get into the realm of the uneconomical and overkill? Do we really need to spend $1000 on a CPU when a $100 model that is only a quater of the speed would be sufficient.
How about you pay a fee for every email you send beyond the twentieth one. Most would never incur such penality. However, it would destroy the idea of 'free' newsletters being sent by email.
It's dangerous to have ISP's with specialized content that only people who connect to that iSP can access. It could theoritically lead to the fragmantaion of the Internet, where you can only go to 15 - 20% of the content of the Internet due to the fact that the rest would be blocked off cause you don't connect to the other ISPs.
'agreed not to allow email surveillance of American citizens' Maybe they did it not in the interests of the public but simply because they don't want the FBI reading their email. It just seems more likely to me that, as a group, they are motivated more by self-interest than anything else.
'Privacy-enhanced database'? If I am not mistaken this idea was implemented a LONG time before 2001. I remember reading a COBOL book written in the seventies(?) that basically had such an idea implmented in code that was used as an example. Maybe someone should tell Oracle about this too, because I have no doubt they devoloped and implemented such things themselves before this company even existed. 'Method and apparatus for forming subject (context) map and presenting Internet data according to the subject map' Oracle and whoever first coombined SQL with PHP may have a claim that they came up with such an idea first.
As for the others, they sound supiciously like things that Oracle, IBM, Sun, and Microsoft had already to a degree implemented by 2000 let alone 2001. It sounds to me like what NCR has done is it has copywrited other people's ideas. Maybe Bill Gates is waiting for these guys to get some money so that he can then sue them for real money.
What if a kid is thinking about porn and soem computer neuro-chip creates a picture of what he's thinking about? Would it be a crime for him to look at the pictures he himself created? Would the police try to use these chips to monitor your activities? Would an employer get sued for sexual harassement for picturing his secretary nude?
This reminds a lot of 'Forbidden Planet' were an entire race of beings is wiped out by their own subconcious thoughts. Some things in the mind should stay in the mind.
Westwood did not basdicaly invent the RTS. They devoloped some of the first RTS's but so did Blizzard. No one company invented RTS, a variety of sources led to its creation.
I beat the game by myself because I had it before I had the Internet so you get the idea of how long it has been since I last played it. So I can't tell you that I know for a fact that this solution is correct but at http://www.gamewinners.com/nes/Immortal.htm
there is a solution under the first of the strategy guides.
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So if I am distracted while I am driving and I accidently run over someone and they die, I should get the chair because "hey, the crime of killing a person is equal to the crime of killing a person"? Hacking into someone's webserver and adding the line to their webpage that I own their box should equal a punishment but that punnishment should not be the same as hacking into a computer and deleting their harddrive or changing the balance in my bank account. It's like saying that every theif should get ten years in prison regardless of what they stole; it sound nice on paper but do you really think anyone should go to jail for ten years for stealing a candybar?
What I said should be understood in the context of the topic. By 'lack of' privacy policy, I was implying that the policy created a 'lack of' privacy.
The correct term should be 'lack of' privacy policy.
If complaining about bugs is 'cool', then when I switch to Linux because of them must make me 'ultra cool'.
In a brief forum Wednsday, Slashdot (The home of geeks), 5, readers said they hadn't seen the complaint. "He should go to jail," they added."
Is the next step to put video cameras in every home so the government can see what you are doing? It will prevent terrorism you know...
I can buy an excellent used car for less than a segway. What would you rather: a 5 grand glorified pogostick that can go 11 miles an hour or a 94 Ford Mustang that can go 110 miles an hour. Secondly there is the chick factor: you think your going to pick up girls on a Segway? Maybe if they ride piggyback...
You mean software developers can't dodge bullets, leap hundreds of feet, download centuries worth of martial arts expertise into their brains, and bend spoons with their minds? I feel cheated...
Hell has just frozen over. It would also appear that the devil has cornered the market in ice skate manufacturing. Stay tuned for further devilopements...
Before we all go rushing off into a discussion about how much more powerful and smaller computer will be in the future, perhaps we should start discussing who will need such systems. It's fine and dandy to come up with a way to build 60 GHZ processors but who would be willing to buy such a CPU? How much computing power do we need before we get into the realm of the uneconomical and overkill? Do we really need to spend $1000 on a CPU when a $100 model that is only a quater of the speed would be sufficient.
A good list of still active BBS is available here
Use norton or other such apps to restore your preinstall MBR.
One that has the numberpad replaced with all the common hotkeys used in vi. That would effectively double the size of the keyboard though...
Don't you just love the way they trick into thinking this is great news by putting "MICROSOFT IS UNFOLDING" all in caps?
How about you pay a fee for every email you send beyond the twentieth one. Most would never incur such penality. However, it would destroy the idea of 'free' newsletters being sent by email.
That's good news for me considering that I never fly.
Arguing on the Internet is like running in the special Olympics, even if you win, you're still retarded.(messedup.net)
The real question is: does AOL have a future?
It's dangerous to have ISP's with specialized content that only people who connect to that iSP can access. It could theoritically lead to the fragmantaion of the Internet, where you can only go to 15 - 20% of the content of the Internet due to the fact that the rest would be blocked off cause you don't connect to the other ISPs.
'agreed not to allow email surveillance of American citizens'
Maybe they did it not in the interests of the public but simply because they don't want the FBI reading their email. It just seems more likely to me that, as a group, they are motivated more by self-interest than anything else.
'Privacy-enhanced database'? If I am not mistaken this idea was implemented a LONG time before 2001. I remember reading a COBOL book written in the seventies(?) that basically had such an idea implmented in code that was used as an example. Maybe someone should tell Oracle about this too, because I have no doubt they devoloped and implemented such things themselves before this company even existed.
'Method and apparatus for forming subject (context) map and presenting Internet data according to the subject map' Oracle and whoever first coombined SQL with PHP may have a claim that they came up with such an idea first.
As for the others, they sound supiciously like things that Oracle, IBM, Sun, and Microsoft had already to a degree implemented by 2000 let alone 2001. It sounds to me like what NCR has done is it has copywrited other people's ideas. Maybe Bill Gates is waiting for these guys to get some money so that he can then sue them for real money.
What if a kid is thinking about porn and soem computer neuro-chip creates a picture of what he's thinking about? Would it be a crime for him to look at the pictures he himself created? Would the police try to use these chips to monitor your activities? Would an employer get sued for sexual harassement for picturing his secretary nude?
This reminds a lot of 'Forbidden Planet' were an entire race of beings is wiped out by their own subconcious thoughts. Some things in the mind should stay in the mind.
Microsoft will go bankrupt just trying to pay for the lawyers they have to hire to protect them from these suits.
Westwood did not basdicaly invent the RTS. They devoloped some of the first RTS's but so did Blizzard. No one company invented RTS, a variety of sources led to its creation.
I beat the game by myself because I had it before I had the Internet so you get the idea of how long it has been since I last played it. So I can't tell you that I know for a fact that this solution is correct but at http://www.gamewinners.com/nes/Immortal.htm there is a solution under the first of the strategy guides.