I've never bought into the money = speech idea. Freedom of speech is extremely important, but why should person X have a louder voice than mine just because he/she has more money than I do?
Money facilitates speech to some extent, but isnt a direct form of speech. Your ability to stand on a soapbox and talk on the corner isnt limited by money. You can talk until you're tired or hoarse. It didnt cost a thing. Freedom of speech is not the same as a requirement to be heard by more people than you would otherwise normally be heard. Therefore, the idea that money as a speech enabling mechanism is a fallacy.
I guess if I were in charge, I'd limit it at the source. Each American citizen can at most donate $1,000 per year in total to any politican or political group or special interest group or 507 or whatever they're called. They wouldnt be allowed to launder money through other people to funnel it to politicans and other groups. That would limit the funds spent every year to something like 280M x $1,000 (although practically much less, since most people dont have $1,000 to give).
Update: Jim Denney, director of product marketing for TiVo, said the instances of standard TV shows being affected by new copy protection restrictions likely are "false positives." Denney said the copy protection is trigged by a flag in the video signal. The reports appearing on the Web appear to be cases where TiVo misinterprets noise in the signal as a copy protection flag, and imposes the restrictions.
"During the test process, we came across people who had false positives because of noisy analog signals," he said. "We actually delayed development (of the new TiVo software) to address those false positives."
Fuck You Paypal. If there is ever a reason never to use your service again, this is it. May Google open up an online payment system and wipe you off the face of the planet.
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google."....
A friend of mine has been able to get text messages out of Biloxi, MS (he is OK, thank God!). Now they're struggling to find the closest operational airport to get them back home (they were contract workers - were because what they were working on is now decimated).
Shuttle already has a working cablecard implementation, they showed it off at Computex. Its chances of getting licensed by CableLabs to hook directly to a computer are about the same as my chance of getting laid anytime soon.
We'll know more when IDF arrives. Until then its just stuff written to try and hit a bullseye in the dark. Which seems to be everywhere nowadays, Dvorak, The Inq, even my fateful Ars is getting bit by the bug that says every action by anyone in the tech industry must be expounded on in a multipage article worth of/. and the ad revenue it brings..
That just means thats increased revenue for those who are developing products to cure cancer, autism, etc. You're creating new jobs and creating revenue! Or so my capitalist overlords tell me.
The code that runs the slot machines is REQUIRED to be inspected and approved by the Nevada Gaming Board (for vegas anyways). So yes, it'll be safe and secure.
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I've never bought into the money = speech idea. Freedom of speech is extremely important, but why should person X have a louder voice than mine just because he/she has more money than I do?
Money facilitates speech to some extent, but isnt a direct form of speech. Your ability to stand on a soapbox and talk on the corner isnt limited by money. You can talk until you're tired or hoarse. It didnt cost a thing. Freedom of speech is not the same as a requirement to be heard by more people than you would otherwise normally be heard. Therefore, the idea that money as a speech enabling mechanism is a fallacy.
I guess if I were in charge, I'd limit it at the source. Each American citizen can at most donate $1,000 per year in total to any politican or political group or special interest group or 507 or whatever they're called. They wouldnt be allowed to launder money through other people to funnel it to politicans and other groups. That would limit the funds spent every year to something like 280M x $1,000 (although practically much less, since most people dont have $1,000 to give).
This is a bug on behalf of the Tivo software...
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http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2005/09/
Update: Jim Denney, director of product marketing for TiVo, said the instances of standard TV shows being affected by new copy protection restrictions likely are "false positives."
Denney said the copy protection is trigged by a flag in the video signal. The reports appearing on the Web appear to be cases where TiVo misinterprets noise in the signal as a copy protection flag, and imposes the restrictions.
"During the test process, we came across people who had false positives because of noisy analog signals," he said. "We actually delayed development (of the new TiVo software) to address those false positives."
Apparently they still didnt fix the issues.
Actually its more along the lines of get these greedy oil barrons out of government. We could have McCain in govt and have sensible foreign policy.
Fuck You Paypal. If there is ever a reason never to use your service again, this is it. May Google open up an online payment system and wipe you off the face of the planet.
An original blog entry...
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http://battellemedia.com/archives/001835.php
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google."
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A friend of mine has been able to get text messages out of Biloxi, MS (he is OK, thank God!). Now they're struggling to find the closest operational airport to get them back home (they were contract workers - were because what they were working on is now decimated).
Steve said low end items were the first to go (mini, iBook, etc). What the hell are they talking about.
Shuttle already has a working cablecard implementation, they showed it off at Computex. Its chances of getting licensed by CableLabs to hook directly to a computer are about the same as my chance of getting laid anytime soon.
Yea, but fusion ball launchers are slightly more profitable, and I always had tons of Alien Alloys left over from missions.
Forget laser cannons, I want my plasma cannons and fusion ball launchers.
MS originally wanted to license REM's "Its the end of the world as we know it" but REM refused or something and it never went through.
Exactly what we've all been waiting for. Is Intel Good(tm) now?
No, they just realized they fucked up and are persuing the more sane route now. Dont forget about East Fork (V//V)
I'm surprised to see his handwriting is a little bit messy, but doesnt look too bad. I figured it would have been all over the place.
Yes, we'll know more. We wont know EVERYTHING.
We'll know more when IDF arrives. Until then its just stuff written to try and hit a bullseye in the dark. Which seems to be everywhere nowadays, Dvorak, The Inq, even my fateful Ars is getting bit by the bug that says every action by anyone in the tech industry must be expounded on in a multipage article worth of /. and the ad revenue it brings..
That just means thats increased revenue for those who are developing products to cure cancer, autism, etc. You're creating new jobs and creating revenue! Or so my capitalist overlords tell me.
Could they be getting the money together to finance all these rumors we keep reading about?
They just wait for rumors to appear about what they're going to do next, then just finance them and build them quickly...
Could they be getting the money together to finance all these rumors we keep reading about?
Zotob might be what most people need to clean up their spyware.....
# Searches for the following files and folders to delete the files and the contents of folders:
* %SYSTEM%\pnpsrv.exe
* %SYSTEM%\winpnp.exe
* %SYSTEM%\csm.exe
* %SYSTEM%\botzor.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\MyWebSearch
* %PROGRAMFILES%\MyWebSearch\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Hotbar
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Hotbar\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\MyWay
* %PROGRAMFILES%\MyWay\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\180Solutions
* %PROGRAMFILES%\180Solutions\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\WinTools
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\WinTools\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Toolbar
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Toolbar\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\CxtPls
* %PROGRAMFILES%\NavExcel
* %PROGRAMFILES%\AutoUpdate
* %PROGRAMFILES%\AutoUpdate\AutoUpdate.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\EbatesMoeMoneyMaker
* %PROGRAMFILES%\eZula
* %PROGRAMFILES%\eZula\mmod.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\GMT
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\GMT\GMT.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\CMEII
Making Firefox more accessible in DHTML areas means they could potentially sell more servers and services to better support the needs of mega-corps.
And its something they could have never done with IE and other closed browsers. And its far cheaper than writing a browser from scratch.
. If true, Mars may remain dead forever unless we can reactivate the almost-solidified core.
Sounds like a plot for a bad B-movie.
The code that runs the slot machines is REQUIRED to be inspected and approved by the Nevada Gaming Board (for vegas anyways). So yes, it'll be safe and secure.
Or at least thats what I think.
Remember this time people, 80 past 2 on April 47th. It's the dawn of a new enlightenment!