5-10 over? Going 20-30 over isn't wrong if you have a radar detector. Speed limits are wrong, I should be free to go as fast as I can so long as I'm not driving recklessly.
But we use traffic cops to enforce these laws within reason; we don't have companies refusing to make cars that go faster than 70mph or have all sorts of insane technology in the car limiting the speed to whatever is posted- and similarly P2P programs shouldn't be shut down.
It's only a matter of time before Microsoft gets into the gun market...
Windows for Handguns:
- It will have state-of-the-art security features so that only the true owner and any script kiddie with ability to download a crack can use it.
- Whenever you are in a critical situation it will lock when you try to fire.
- The EULA will come with 5 pages of clauses outlining how the gun does not let you shoot MS employees.
- The targetting system will be off by varying amounts.
- Shooting will be delayed by messages informing you that you're low on bullets.. even if you're not.
I use a T-Mobile phone at college in the Miami area, and coverage is great. I can usually hold a call while in an elevator. I travel to the other side of the state often, and the coverage is not so great. There's a T-Mobile tower at the end of alligator alley, and that's it for about 100 miles (but the entire alley is covered, which is weird since fort myers isn't). I live about 35 miles south of sarasota, which is shown as covered on the coverage map, but I can only get a signal at night, and at random times during the day, and even at these times is extremely weak (the good thing about digital with my phone is that conversations still sound fine at 0-1 bars on the signal strength meter). I'll be staying in that area all summer, so I've been looking at some external antennas. (from how ive described the coverage here, can anyone offer suggestions as to how many dBi in gain would be good?) But otherwise, I'm happy with the service, and really like the idea of the great international coverage. Perhaps they will make a roaming deal with ATT, as my phone shows that its network is available in the area, but won't let me on.
According to the last AOL support rep I talked to on the phone. According to them, AOL has never had an exploit resulting in compromising member information. Incidently, I was calling to report an open exploit that resulted in my information being compromised. They told me it was impossible. I explained to them, in detail, how the exploit worked. Nope, apparently it was still impossible. So I asked to be put through to operations security (opssec). I was told it didn't exist. I even pointed out a page on their website that mentioned it. Nope, doesn't exist. Quite fed up with this robotic imbecile, I asked to speak to a supervisor. The supervisor (this is in the fraud department, by the way) explained that they were trained to deny that AOL had any flaws. Interesting. After realizing the supervisor also had no idea what they were talking about, I requested to be put through to opssec. Well, the supervisor at least acknowledged its existence, but refused to put me through, despite the fact that I had very important network security information. In so many words, I was told they didn't care that my information was compromised.
Soon after this, I cancelled my account. Not only did they charge me for 2 more months, but they charged me the dialup rate (I was BYOA). So I called them up, quite pissed off, and asked for the charges to be reversed. I was then told my account was still active. At this point, I explained to the incompetent billing employee how to use Merlin to pull the fraud record of the account termination. The charges were subsequently reversed.
My experience gives new meaning to the phrase "AOL sucks"
In Genesis, the word translated as "day" actually means "period of time." Puts a different spin on things.
Evolution isn't even completely against the Bible and Creationism. Last time I checked, evolution doesn't do a great job of explaining how life came into existence, only how it developed. Theories as to how simple organic molecules organized themselves into self-replicating macromolecules don't enjoy as wide a base of scientific support as evolution.
The writeup on scienceforums.net (click below if too lazy to c/p/type) provides a good technical summary of the results and explains what all the fancy terms like decoupling and reionization mean.
Just download 150 billion digits of pi.
http://ja0hxv.calico.jp/ has the first 10 billion... I think there's an FTP with more but I can't find it right now.
or compute it yourself in a few weeks http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/PiPro gram/pifasthome.html
Don't forget not to compress it
I think the radiation from years of long days of having a CRT monitor less than a couple feet away from my face will give me a brain tumor that will take me out before the clots get me.
So, it's not a violation of anti-trust laws to have a near-complete monopoly of this content offline, but if they put it online it's suddenly an anti-trust case?
I'm not saying it shouldn't be, but I am wondering how they avoid anti-trust laws offline to begin with. How many Congressman does the RIAA own now?
The entire age based system is completely arbitrary anyway. If I'm 17, I'm immature and shouldn't be allowed to play violent video games, but the day I turn 18 the maturity fairy visits me and I can realize I shouldn't actually go out and slaughter people? When I was playing violent games like Doom when I was 10, I knew full well there's a difference between games and life. More teenagers do than do not.
Obviously alot of adults still don't realize what should and shouldn't be done.
More credit should be given, by the time they're teenagers most kids aren't ignorant lumps of clay for the media to shape. Not only that, the fact that it's illegal will make it more appealing to some kids, as illegal acts encourage some adults.
Oh, but that's right, all that matters to lawmakers is pleasing the extremely vocal minority group of negligent parents who think it's the governments job to raise our kids. Maybe if people raised their kids right they'd be less apt think video games are real.
Indirect influence on violent behavoir? Maybe. Studies haven't considered the 3rd variable problem. Are violent adults violent because they played video games, or did they play violent video games because other factors made them violent. TV is just as bad in terms of violence, but it's not illegal for kids to watch violent shows.
Welcome to the confused hypocrisy that is censorship.
This case perfectly highlights a legimate use for breaking copy protection, to play your own DVDs on an OS that the copy protection doesn't like. As for distributing, I'm sure other people wish to do it as well. Time to stop outlawing things with legit use just because of the potential for illegal use. What's next, outlawing baseball bats because I can beat people to death with one? I hope this case gets more attention in the US so people can see this.
I use e-mail autoforwarding to track spam. Every time I give my email address, I specify who I'm giving it to, ex. blah.com goes to blahcom@mydomain (anything@mydomain goes to the same hotmail box), so when I receive a spam, I can see which site sent it or sold the information, and block any e-mail coming from that site and everyone they sold it with To: line filters. Since most of the sites I wish to receive e-mail from are sites that don't spam me, this method has been successful in eliminating the vast majority of spam that I receive, down to only about 1 piece per day.
They have the power to tax, the power to make (buy) laws, police power (I believe RIAA members were part of the team in the recent raid), influence on our armed forces... yet somehow the general public doesn't seem all too concerned. Looks like in a few more years at this pace we'll have 2 governments.
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5-10 over? Going 20-30 over isn't wrong if you have a radar detector. Speed limits are wrong, I should be free to go as fast as I can so long as I'm not driving recklessly. But we use traffic cops to enforce these laws within reason; we don't have companies refusing to make cars that go faster than 70mph or have all sorts of insane technology in the car limiting the speed to whatever is posted- and similarly P2P programs shouldn't be shut down.
It's only a matter of time before Microsoft gets into the gun market...
Windows for Handguns:
- It will have state-of-the-art security features so that only the true owner and any script kiddie with ability to download a crack can use it.
- Whenever you are in a critical situation it will lock when you try to fire.
- The EULA will come with 5 pages of clauses outlining how the gun does not let you shoot MS employees.
- The targetting system will be off by varying amounts.
- Shooting will be delayed by messages informing you that you're low on bullets.. even if you're not.
I use a T-Mobile phone at college in the Miami area, and coverage is great. I can usually hold a call while in an elevator. I travel to the other side of the state often, and the coverage is not so great. There's a T-Mobile tower at the end of alligator alley, and that's it for about 100 miles (but the entire alley is covered, which is weird since fort myers isn't). I live about 35 miles south of sarasota, which is shown as covered on the coverage map, but I can only get a signal at night, and at random times during the day, and even at these times is extremely weak (the good thing about digital with my phone is that conversations still sound fine at 0-1 bars on the signal strength meter). I'll be staying in that area all summer, so I've been looking at some external antennas. (from how ive described the coverage here, can anyone offer suggestions as to how many dBi in gain would be good?)
But otherwise, I'm happy with the service, and really like the idea of the great international coverage. Perhaps they will make a roaming deal with ATT, as my phone shows that its network is available in the area, but won't let me on.
According to the last AOL support rep I talked to on the phone. According to them, AOL has never had an exploit resulting in compromising member information. Incidently, I was calling to report an open exploit that resulted in my information being compromised. They told me it was impossible. I explained to them, in detail, how the exploit worked. Nope, apparently it was still impossible. So I asked to be put through to operations security (opssec). I was told it didn't exist. I even pointed out a page on their website that mentioned it. Nope, doesn't exist. Quite fed up with this robotic imbecile, I asked to speak to a supervisor. The supervisor (this is in the fraud department, by the way) explained that they were trained to deny that AOL had any flaws. Interesting. After realizing the supervisor also had no idea what they were talking about, I requested to be put through to opssec. Well, the supervisor at least acknowledged its existence, but refused to put me through, despite the fact that I had very important network security information. In so many words, I was told they didn't care that my information was compromised.
Soon after this, I cancelled my account. Not only did they charge me for 2 more months, but they charged me the dialup rate (I was BYOA). So I called them up, quite pissed off, and asked for the charges to be reversed. I was then told my account was still active. At this point, I explained to the incompetent billing employee how to use Merlin to pull the fraud record of the account termination. The charges were subsequently reversed.
My experience gives new meaning to the phrase "AOL sucks"
In Genesis, the word translated as "day" actually means "period of time." Puts a different spin on things. Evolution isn't even completely against the Bible and Creationism. Last time I checked, evolution doesn't do a great job of explaining how life came into existence, only how it developed. Theories as to how simple organic molecules organized themselves into self-replicating macromolecules don't enjoy as wide a base of scientific support as evolution.
The writeup on scienceforums.net (click below if too lazy to c/p /type) provides a good technical summary of the results and explains what all the fancy terms like decoupling and reionization mean.
Just download 150 billion digits of pi.o gram/pifasthome.html
Don't forget not to compress it
http://ja0hxv.calico.jp/ has the first 10 billion... I think there's an FTP with more but I can't find it right now.
or compute it yourself in a few weeks http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/PiPr
I think the radiation from years of long days of having a CRT monitor less than a couple feet away from my face will give me a brain tumor that will take me out before the clots get me.
So, it's not a violation of anti-trust laws to have a near-complete monopoly of this content offline, but if they put it online it's suddenly an anti-trust case? I'm not saying it shouldn't be, but I am wondering how they avoid anti-trust laws offline to begin with. How many Congressman does the RIAA own now?
I strongly doubt the programmer could beat Kasparov himself no matter how much time he took.
The entire age based system is completely arbitrary anyway. If I'm 17, I'm immature and shouldn't be allowed to play violent video games, but the day I turn 18 the maturity fairy visits me and I can realize I shouldn't actually go out and slaughter people? When I was playing violent games like Doom when I was 10, I knew full well there's a difference between games and life. More teenagers do than do not.
Obviously alot of adults still don't realize what should and shouldn't be done.
More credit should be given, by the time they're teenagers most kids aren't ignorant lumps of clay for the media to shape. Not only that, the fact that it's illegal will make it more appealing to some kids, as illegal acts encourage some adults. Oh, but that's right, all that matters to lawmakers is pleasing the extremely vocal minority group of negligent parents who think it's the governments job to raise our kids. Maybe if people raised their kids right they'd be less apt think video games are real.
Indirect influence on violent behavoir? Maybe. Studies haven't considered the 3rd variable problem. Are violent adults violent because they played video games, or did they play violent video games because other factors made them violent. TV is just as bad in terms of violence, but it's not illegal for kids to watch violent shows.
Welcome to the confused hypocrisy that is censorship.
This case perfectly highlights a legimate use for breaking copy protection, to play your own DVDs on an OS that the copy protection doesn't like. As for distributing, I'm sure other people wish to do it as well. Time to stop outlawing things with legit use just because of the potential for illegal use. What's next, outlawing baseball bats because I can beat people to death with one? I hope this case gets more attention in the US so people can see this.
I use e-mail autoforwarding to track spam. Every time I give my email address, I specify who I'm giving it to, ex. blah.com goes to blahcom@mydomain (anything@mydomain goes to the same hotmail box), so when I receive a spam, I can see which site sent it or sold the information, and block any e-mail coming from that site and everyone they sold it with To: line filters. Since most of the sites I wish to receive e-mail from are sites that don't spam me, this method has been successful in eliminating the vast majority of spam that I receive, down to only about 1 piece per day.
They have the power to tax, the power to make (buy) laws, police power (I believe RIAA members were part of the team in the recent raid), influence on our armed forces... yet somehow the general public doesn't seem all too concerned. Looks like in a few more years at this pace we'll have 2 governments.