The dollar would be "lost" because the person who found it has absolutely no reasonable way to return it to its owner. A sidekick, or other similar device, is another story. Upon turning it on and finding that it has service, it's obvious that someone, somewhere is paying for it. That someone is not you. At that point, the reasonable thing to do is to hand it to the cabbie and say "someone left this back here." By taking it and using it, you are not only stealing their wireless services (by knowingly using a service you know you're not paying for), you are also retaining possession of an item that you know belongs to someone else. That's called possession of stolen goods, which actually is a crime (whether you're the person who stole it or not).
Do the PS3 and XBox360 controllers have some kind of anti-throwing technology that prevents the same thing from happening to them?
2) old people trying to use it as a remote, getting upset and shaking it
Someone would have to have some serious rage issues to physically damage a device, through nothing more than violently shaking it, simply because it's not doing what they think it should. Perhaps that person shouldn't be playing video games in the first place. (And I certainly hope they never have a baby.)
3) being left out and stepped on
Again, how is this scenario magically different from a PS3 or XBox360 controller?
run firefox so you don't need anything for spyware
This is just like those Dell commercials which say "and upgrade to our anti-virus package, all you need to protect you from viruses and spyware." I'm sorry, but it's statements like that which only serve to further the problem of malicious software on the internet. Security is a process, not a product. Stop telling people that "if you run this software, you'll be absolutely protected" because some people actually listen to garbage like that.
The question then becomes, "How does one find such surplus sales?"
I mean, hell, I could use other surplus equipment too, not just tech. If an office is unloading a bunch of swivel chairs or other office furniture, I'd take a couple.
You've obviously never bullseyed womp rats in your T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters, but don't let that fool you. It's good TV, I'm telling you.
What is so important that you Linux hippies feel the need to encrypt?
I may be a Linux user, but if anyone thinks I'm a "hippie" then they really need to re-define the term.
Do you have something to hide?
Maybe, maybe not. Either way, it's none of your business or anybody else's.
It's kiddy porn, isn't it? Be honest!
<sarcasm>You know, if kiddie porn is such a problem on the internet, how come I can never find any?</sarcasm>
I for one am glad that Microsoft doesn't help out the terrorists and pedophiles in their illegal activity.
So am I. We don't want their kind of "help."
Their encrypting filesystem includes numerous backdoors to assist law enforcement.
Case in point.
I just wish the OSS community would do the same.
Simple enough. Write your own. Make it as terrible as you want. Post the source on Sourceforge. Then the "OSS community" will have done the same. It won't be very popular, but it'll be there.
In all seriousness, it's not about hiding criminal activity. Honestly, the current state of US politics (that is, after all, where I live) kind of scares me. I may not be engaging in illegal activity now, but how many of my current activities will be considered illegal in the future? The last thing I need is for some "law enforcement" entity to go grepping my emails and IM logs looking for something to pin on me.
I have nothing to hide. I also have nothing to share. Nothing to see here, please move along.
Suppose you are buying a computer from a major vendor. For the sake of argument, Dell. You request that no OS be installed on it, but they tell you that it has to come with Windows. Windows, of course, has a license agreement. Now, if this is to be treated as a legally binding contract, then both parties have to agree to it, right?
So, is there some way in which you can notify Microsoft and tell them that you do not agree with their license agreement and that, if they choose to sell it to you anyway, they do so with no binding agreement in place? They have every right to refuse the sale at that point, sure. But if they don't, what then are your rights with the resulting purchase?
Could you then install that copy of Windows on every machine in your house (again, this is just hypothetical, please don't try this at home) without having to buy more copies/licenses? After all, you never agreed to their terms of sale, but they agreed to yours (none), right?
Could anyone with some legal expertise elaborate on this sort of thing? I know very little about contract law, in the US or otherwise.
If he was elected he would get rid of a tax he has to pay. And replace it with taxes he won't pay since they would be taxing services he obviously doesn't use? How is that fair?
You answered your own question. Sure, his intentions are obvious. And his motivations could range anywhere from simple greed to some deep belief in his own righteousness. But, in the end, if Texas doesn't want this to happen, Texas can stop it.
I was wondering the same thing. Talk about needing to mod a story (or at least a headline) -1 Flamebait, sheesh.
By calling for a boycott, they leave the actual decision in the hands of the parents/guardians/game-buyers. As a community, this is precisely what we want. No absurd laws or regulations, just a group of concerned individuals advocating that people think about what they're buying before they buy it.
I'm afraid a little more effort than that will be required. Therein lies the problem, sadly. Everyone already knows how to exercise (running, biking, swimming, etc.) but they just don't care enough to do it.
This is a big example of a movie ignoring a lot of what makes a book good, and it seems to get a free pass because of what it did visually.
I'd grant it a "free pass" since, if for no other reason, the book didn't exist at the time. As others in this thread have pointed out, Kubrick and Clarke co-authored the screenplay for the movie. Afterwards, Clarke wrote the novel.
Walk a mile in my shoes, buddy. You'll find out it ain't all peachs 'n cream.
A friend of mine from another country once said he felt sorry for me because I have Bush as a president. I responded, "Me? Hell, I feel sorry for you. At least I'm not subject to his foreign policy."
Yeah, people email their passwords and say "I can't login!" and the helpdesk archives the emails.
That's nothing. I was once writing a new website for a client and, when one of their customers couldn't login to the website, he emailed me (not them) with his username, password, phone number, address, social security number, credit card number and expiration date. He was trying to show me that he is a paid member for their services and, thus, should be able to login.
Either you mis-interpreted me or I was not as clear as I should have been. I was not saying that "your sample is wrong, you should find a sample which yields results that I find more agreeable." I was saying "your sample is fine, but please don't use it to infer common traits outside of anything other than your sample."
For example... Suppose a company wanted to do market research for a product. They interview thousands of college students around the US and find that the majority of them like the product. It would be grossly inaccurate for the company to then claim that "most people in the world like our product." It would be more accurate to claim "most college students in the US like our product."
Over-generalizing results based on a limited sample of data is, unfortunately, a common mistake in many analyses. To judge a group based on the actions of people who are not part of, or only a small sect of said group is, at least to me, unsound analysis.
I agree, and I would just like to add something to your point...
It's been my experience (and, no, I'm not a hippie by any definition of the word) that most stereotypes about hippies come from experiences with people who claim to be hippies, but in all actuality are not.
This is just like stereotypes about Christians (and, yes, I am a Christian) or Islamics or any number of other social groups.
Just because a person claims to be part of a specific group or demographic, and no matter how much that person may actually believe it, that does not mean they really are. When passing judgement on poser-hippies, one should not include the real ones.
Certainly all perfectly good questions, and there is certainly room for debate on the matter until we're all blue in the face
I'm bored at work, so what the hell...
If God created them too, shouldn't it have, y'know, mentioned it?
Shouldn't what have mentioned it? The Bible? Wasn't important to the author. There was plenty of "yadda yadda yadda" where stuff was left out. Their concept of "important" was vastly different from that of a modern historian.
What made Adam and Eve special?
Maybe they were chosen by God to usher in His chosen line of descendants, and the rest were just there to supply a gene pool. Or maybe they were a little experiment that didn't work. (He certainly tried again a couple times... how many new/renewed covenants were there? Like 6?)
If the Nodians weren't descended from them, why were they not in the Garden?
I'm... not sure what you're asking there. Adam and Eve were created in the isolated Garden. Everyone else was somewhere else. (Evolution would certainly explain where everyone else came from. Billions of years here, some natural selection there. It's all well within the grasp of an infinitely supreme being.) Adam and Eve got kicked out and made their home elsewhere. Cain and Seth eventually interacted with people in other places. What are you asking?
Did they have guilt-by-association by dint of being human? Did God create them impure?
Being human, we are all impure by design. Even the most righteous among us are as filthy rags to God (I don't remember where I heard that... could be a Bible quote). Sin seeks to overtake us and we struggle with it daily throughout our lives. Adam, Eve, their children, and all their descendants were no exception (save for the Lion of Judah Himself, but He was special).
Did they get created in the Garden, see Adam and Eve get expelled for hubris, and decide that eating the forbidden apple was a really good plan?
If that was the case, no mention was made of it. Could have been another "yadda yadda yadda." It's certainly an idea I've never heard before, and it doesn't fit with any interpretation of Genesis that I can come up with. But hey, run with it. Could be interesting.
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The dollar would be "lost" because the person who found it has absolutely no reasonable way to return it to its owner. A sidekick, or other similar device, is another story. Upon turning it on and finding that it has service, it's obvious that someone, somewhere is paying for it. That someone is not you. At that point, the reasonable thing to do is to hand it to the cabbie and say "someone left this back here." By taking it and using it, you are not only stealing their wireless services (by knowingly using a service you know you're not paying for), you are also retaining possession of an item that you know belongs to someone else. That's called possession of stolen goods, which actually is a crime (whether you're the person who stole it or not).
Well, that's for my wife so I can get behind her and help her with her strokes.
Too.... many.... punchlines.....
1)Upset gamers throwing it against the wall
Do the PS3 and XBox360 controllers have some kind of anti-throwing technology that prevents the same thing from happening to them?
2) old people trying to use it as a remote, getting upset and shaking it
Someone would have to have some serious rage issues to physically damage a device, through nothing more than violently shaking it, simply because it's not doing what they think it should. Perhaps that person shouldn't be playing video games in the first place. (And I certainly hope they never have a baby.)
3) being left out and stepped on
Again, how is this scenario magically different from a PS3 or XBox360 controller?
if your sex life is at all interesting, you're probably violating some law that's on the books
Whew, that's a relief.
Where do they find these idiots who watch too much Star Trek?
The problem is that they don't watch enough Star Trek. Any fan would know the difference between this thing and a "force field."
run firefox so you don't need anything for spyware
This is just like those Dell commercials which say "and upgrade to our anti-virus package, all you need to protect you from viruses and spyware." I'm sorry, but it's statements like that which only serve to further the problem of malicious software on the internet. Security is a process, not a product. Stop telling people that "if you run this software, you'll be absolutely protected" because some people actually listen to garbage like that.
The question then becomes, "How does one find such surplus sales?"
I mean, hell, I could use other surplus equipment too, not just tech. If an office is unloading a bunch of swivel chairs or other office furniture, I'd take a couple.
But where would I find such sales?
You've obviously never bullseyed womp rats in your T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters, but don't let that fool you. It's good TV, I'm telling you.
What is so important that you Linux hippies feel the need to encrypt?
I may be a Linux user, but if anyone thinks I'm a "hippie" then they really need to re-define the term.
Do you have something to hide?
Maybe, maybe not. Either way, it's none of your business or anybody else's.
It's kiddy porn, isn't it? Be honest!
<sarcasm>You know, if kiddie porn is such a problem on the internet, how come I can never find any?</sarcasm>
I for one am glad that Microsoft doesn't help out the terrorists and pedophiles in their illegal activity.
So am I. We don't want their kind of "help."
Their encrypting filesystem includes numerous backdoors to assist law enforcement.
Case in point.
I just wish the OSS community would do the same.
Simple enough. Write your own. Make it as terrible as you want. Post the source on Sourceforge. Then the "OSS community" will have done the same. It won't be very popular, but it'll be there.
In all seriousness, it's not about hiding criminal activity. Honestly, the current state of US politics (that is, after all, where I live) kind of scares me. I may not be engaging in illegal activity now, but how many of my current activities will be considered illegal in the future? The last thing I need is for some "law enforcement" entity to go grepping my emails and IM logs looking for something to pin on me.
I have nothing to hide. I also have nothing to share. Nothing to see here, please move along.
You would have before?
That raises an interesting question...
Suppose you are buying a computer from a major vendor. For the sake of argument, Dell. You request that no OS be installed on it, but they tell you that it has to come with Windows. Windows, of course, has a license agreement. Now, if this is to be treated as a legally binding contract, then both parties have to agree to it, right?
So, is there some way in which you can notify Microsoft and tell them that you do not agree with their license agreement and that, if they choose to sell it to you anyway, they do so with no binding agreement in place? They have every right to refuse the sale at that point, sure. But if they don't, what then are your rights with the resulting purchase?
Could you then install that copy of Windows on every machine in your house (again, this is just hypothetical, please don't try this at home) without having to buy more copies/licenses? After all, you never agreed to their terms of sale, but they agreed to yours (none), right?
Could anyone with some legal expertise elaborate on this sort of thing? I know very little about contract law, in the US or otherwise.
If he was elected he would get rid of a tax he has to pay. And replace it with taxes he won't pay since they would be taxing services he obviously doesn't use? How is that fair?
You answered your own question. Sure, his intentions are obvious. And his motivations could range anywhere from simple greed to some deep belief in his own righteousness. But, in the end, if Texas doesn't want this to happen, Texas can stop it.
I was wondering the same thing. Talk about needing to mod a story (or at least a headline) -1 Flamebait, sheesh.
By calling for a boycott, they leave the actual decision in the hands of the parents/guardians/game-buyers. As a community, this is precisely what we want. No absurd laws or regulations, just a group of concerned individuals advocating that people think about what they're buying before they buy it.
Sounds good to me.
$250,000
That'll work.
they could watch their video to lose the calories
I'm afraid a little more effort than that will be required. Therein lies the problem, sadly. Everyone already knows how to exercise (running, biking, swimming, etc.) but they just don't care enough to do it.
That's part of the beauty of Everquest. You don't have to play it at all and it's still just as interesting.
This is a big example of a movie ignoring a lot of what makes a book good, and it seems to get a free pass because of what it did visually.
I'd grant it a "free pass" since, if for no other reason, the book didn't exist at the time. As others in this thread have pointed out, Kubrick and Clarke co-authored the screenplay for the movie. Afterwards, Clarke wrote the novel.
make sure you keep the jackscrews lubed!
Always sound advice.
Walk a mile in my shoes, buddy. You'll find out it ain't all peachs 'n cream.
A friend of mine from another country once said he felt sorry for me because I have Bush as a president. I responded, "Me? Hell, I feel sorry for you. At least I'm not subject to his foreign policy."
Yeah, people email their passwords and say "I can't login!" and the helpdesk archives the emails.
That's nothing. I was once writing a new website for a client and, when one of their customers couldn't login to the website, he emailed me (not them) with his username, password, phone number, address, social security number, credit card number and expiration date. He was trying to show me that he is a paid member for their services and, thus, should be able to login.
As always, I archive every email I receive.
We may very well be on the brink of returning to the earlier days.
The internet of 1997 with the connection speeds of 2005? Sign me up!
Obligatory responses to this include multiple variations of:
Me too!!1!
Either you mis-interpreted me or I was not as clear as I should have been. I was not saying that "your sample is wrong, you should find a sample which yields results that I find more agreeable." I was saying "your sample is fine, but please don't use it to infer common traits outside of anything other than your sample."
For example... Suppose a company wanted to do market research for a product. They interview thousands of college students around the US and find that the majority of them like the product. It would be grossly inaccurate for the company to then claim that "most people in the world like our product." It would be more accurate to claim "most college students in the US like our product."
Over-generalizing results based on a limited sample of data is, unfortunately, a common mistake in many analyses. To judge a group based on the actions of people who are not part of, or only a small sect of said group is, at least to me, unsound analysis.
I agree, and I would just like to add something to your point...
It's been my experience (and, no, I'm not a hippie by any definition of the word) that most stereotypes about hippies come from experiences with people who claim to be hippies, but in all actuality are not.
This is just like stereotypes about Christians (and, yes, I am a Christian) or Islamics or any number of other social groups.
Just because a person claims to be part of a specific group or demographic, and no matter how much that person may actually believe it, that does not mean they really are. When passing judgement on poser-hippies, one should not include the real ones.
if it's crap people arent gonna like buying it
Sadly, whether people like it or not, they're just going to end up buying it anyway. I doubt they could alienate their customers even if they tried.
Certainly all perfectly good questions, and there is certainly room for debate on the matter until we're all blue in the face
I'm bored at work, so what the hell...
If God created them too, shouldn't it have, y'know, mentioned it?
Shouldn't what have mentioned it? The Bible? Wasn't important to the author. There was plenty of "yadda yadda yadda" where stuff was left out. Their concept of "important" was vastly different from that of a modern historian.
What made Adam and Eve special?
Maybe they were chosen by God to usher in His chosen line of descendants, and the rest were just there to supply a gene pool. Or maybe they were a little experiment that didn't work. (He certainly tried again a couple times... how many new/renewed covenants were there? Like 6?)
If the Nodians weren't descended from them, why were they not in the Garden?
I'm... not sure what you're asking there. Adam and Eve were created in the isolated Garden. Everyone else was somewhere else. (Evolution would certainly explain where everyone else came from. Billions of years here, some natural selection there. It's all well within the grasp of an infinitely supreme being.) Adam and Eve got kicked out and made their home elsewhere. Cain and Seth eventually interacted with people in other places. What are you asking?
Did they have guilt-by-association by dint of being human? Did God create them impure?
Being human, we are all impure by design. Even the most righteous among us are as filthy rags to God (I don't remember where I heard that... could be a Bible quote). Sin seeks to overtake us and we struggle with it daily throughout our lives. Adam, Eve, their children, and all their descendants were no exception (save for the Lion of Judah Himself, but He was special).
Did they get created in the Garden, see Adam and Eve get expelled for hubris, and decide that eating the forbidden apple was a really good plan?
If that was the case, no mention was made of it. Could have been another "yadda yadda yadda." It's certainly an idea I've never heard before, and it doesn't fit with any interpretation of Genesis that I can come up with. But hey, run with it. Could be interesting.