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9.4 is a very useful storage amount. Double-sided DVD disks & burners have been around for some time now. The only drawback are a rather prolonged burn time (all night), which is in itself related to the expotential increase in frustration/dispair when media gets corrupted.
Wage slaves can breathe easy for a little while. Tests like this would be so fantasically expensive that most companies would not bother to screen prospective employees (depending on the organization....there can be hundreds at a time) in this fashion. You might see this in sensitive/high-responsibility environments, but I laugh at the idea of tightfisted companies brain-scanning their cubicle drones or factory workers.
Worry more about health information getting leaked. Or about how a good handwriting sample (or signature!)can essentially reveal the same information.
You are thinking of GameSpy (although maybe both?). Every time you nagivate through the site you are interrupted by a full-screen popup.
Fortunately, the X to close is easily spotted, and can be closed before the ad even fades in. If the ads suggested in the article operate as courteously I will not have a problem with them (or with ignoring them).
Verzion is withholding the names because acquiesing will mean that they MUST hand it over to anyone that asks, at any time. That means monitoring, that means employees and equipment, and that all means $$$$$.
Basically, Verizon and all other ISPs are going to have to foot the bill for the RIAA's problem.
Perhaps this is just a personal Emerson-ish retreat from modern gaming, but I am very glad to see older, modest games being released, or re-released, for Linux.
Many linux machines out there are older desktops and laptops with limited system resources (certainly not 3-D!) The best games for Linux are either venerable classics (nethack) or cutting edge ports (MOHAA, UT2003). Let's not forget older games, made back in the days when People Were Nice, and Money Wasn't Everything. Anyone up for a port of MOO2?
...yes, a terrible drain on our pocketbooks and the motivation of the poor.
What about the sizeable percentage of the popultion who, because of the terrible isolationist nuclear-family thing, grow into adults who are completely unable to function in society?
They can always go to jail of course -- just hope that the crime that puts them there isn't commited against you. Or your family.
...because you had two essentially different societies sharing the same country. Slavery enabled a social order and economic system that would completely collapse if slavery was ever outlawed. So saying the war "wasn't about slavery" is missing the root-level big picture -- were you referring to the use of the slavery issue as a military/politcal expident during the war? Different topic altogether.
As long as slavery existed, Southern civilization would have drifted further apart from the North, failing to industrialize and sinking into an aristocractic fantasy where all the labor was done by non-people. If the first war had not settled the issue, there would have been more wars, until it was.
Should I be allowed to sue the Port of Elizabeth (handles most sea cargo for the NYC metropolis and beyond) for the cocaine that was smuggled in, somewhere, was distributed, to someone, and then was used by a person who commited a crime against me?
The problem here is that the RIAA is going to make VERIZON foot the bill for protecting their 'God-Given copyright.'
As an ironic aside, the publishing industries of America (yes, all of them) clawed their way to the top by blatantly stealing IP themselves. The book industry routinely ripped off Enlgish authors from the start of the Industrial Revolution (itself stolen IP)to about the time that......they had lots of IP to protect themselves! Convienent. We are the suckers that have to obey, I guess.
You left out the copy protection favored by boutique and high-end appmakers -- the dongle. One particularly amusing software package we run in the garment industry requires a seventy-five dollar upgrade for the dongle itself. Completely separate from the software upgrade -- the customer is paying for the priviledge of protecting other people's IP!
...countless lives get ruined while the wheels of justice turn, slow year by slow year. But since Order, and not Chaos, causes the harm, it is quite alright! We kill civilians to make the world a better place -- it's for progress, it wasn't intentional, so it's not criminal!
If you really think your geeky attempts at phone sex with some hot level 5,000,000 elf from EverQuest with a +50 con dildo are worth protecting from the evil shadow government, please encrypt!
As amusing as your example may be, repeat it to someone documenting the atrocities of tyrants (ahem -- ironic), and they might not smile.
Checks and balances work until someone starts fooling with the calibration. For example : Just what sort of military action requires explicit Congressional authorization these days -- full scale Soviet invasion? Where in the Constitution (and related documents) does it mention the Judicary acting as the sole moral and ethical arbiter of the land? Your faith in a few politically-appointed men and women is quite honest, but very, very dangerous.
He wasn't underestimating them as geeks; rather, he was saying that women tend not to be the socially-maladjusted, emotionally-repressed sort that enjoy (a) violence and (b)ruining/exploiting the game itself.
These laws need some case law to cut them down, quick. Someone in Michigan (or related states) should immediately launch a lawsuit against, say, their ISP for providing NAT, with the sole intent of having the judge rule in favor of the defendant. Perhaps even orchastrate the whole affair with the cooperation of the ISP....if that is legal. Better that way then having case law start off with easy-to-prosecute cases that only fortify this foolishness.
All I know is that something needs to be done. This law strikes me as well-suited for selective (targeted) prosecution.
I must be a criminal then, because the thought of breaking multiple laws in a single evening's tinkering is quite motivational. It's the same sentiment that has seen me eating French cuisine lately (which I normally hate), solely because my provincial countrymen hate it now.
Seriously though. Does it ever occur to people that sometimes they have to FIGHT to get things their way? Not fighting in the sense of a debate-club discussion, but rather a nasty bar brawl; you are gonna get hurt a bit, but [hopefully] the other guy gets hurt more.
How did civil rights come about? Did Martin Luther King bitch to his fellow oppressed on the local bulletin board (ahem), write a congressman, and then go home? As I recall, he spent more than a few nights in jail, and eventually got shot to boot.
I'd rather be an insurance guy or something similarly boring then spending part of my life in a 4x6 cell, or even living in fear of same. Well instead of a 4x6 cell you can have a 100x100 subdivision in some godless plastic suburb somewhere. You'll be safe there, have a fun life!
I think spammers are the same kind of people that get stuck working for one of those quasi-pyramid sales companies. Those "Make Money from Home" ads usually require the purchase of the spamming software (reliable revenue stream of suckers), and I would suspect that most people do not make back the money they spend on it.
I doubt these folks' internet connections stay valid for very long once they start spewing email through their accounts, so that might have something to do with it....
Raed is hopefully just offline for the near to medium future. I am really hoping he didn't, say, get a HARM missile locked onto his satelite uplink....
No, I avoided becoming a modern galley slave thus far. All the call center is missing is a large drum....frankly, I'd sell DSL backwards first.
My point is that it will soon be unavoidable for any worker who's time and work is quantifiable in this way. Top executives, who mostly talk to one another, will of course be exempt.
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The only drawback are a rather prolonged burn time (all night), which is in itself related to the expotential increase in frustration/dispair when media gets corrupted.
Worry more about health information getting leaked. Or about how a good handwriting sample (or signature!)can essentially reveal the same information.
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Fortunately, the X to close is easily spotted, and can be closed before the ad even fades in. If the ads suggested in the article operate as courteously I will not have a problem with them (or with ignoring them).
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Basically, Verizon and all other ISPs are going to have to foot the bill for the RIAA's problem.
Many linux machines out there are older desktops and laptops with limited system resources (certainly not 3-D!) The best games for Linux are either venerable classics (nethack) or cutting edge ports (MOHAA, UT2003). Let's not forget older games, made back in the days when People Were Nice, and Money Wasn't Everything. Anyone up for a port of MOO2?
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What about the sizeable percentage of the popultion who, because of the terrible isolationist nuclear-family thing, grow into adults who are completely unable to function in society?
They can always go to jail of course -- just hope that the crime that puts them there isn't commited against you. Or your family.
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As long as slavery existed, Southern civilization would have drifted further apart from the North, failing to industrialize and sinking into an aristocractic fantasy where all the labor was done by non-people. If the first war had not settled the issue, there would have been more wars, until it was.
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The problem here is that the RIAA is going to make VERIZON foot the bill for protecting their 'God-Given copyright.'
As an ironic aside, the publishing industries of America (yes, all of them) clawed their way to the top by blatantly stealing IP themselves. The book industry routinely ripped off Enlgish authors from the start of the Industrial Revolution (itself stolen IP)to about the time that......they had lots of IP to protect themselves! Convienent. We are the suckers that have to obey, I guess.
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If you really think your geeky attempts at phone sex with some hot level 5,000,000 elf from EverQuest with a +50 con dildo are worth protecting from the evil shadow government, please encrypt!
As amusing as your example may be, repeat it to someone documenting the atrocities of tyrants (ahem -- ironic), and they might not smile.
Checks and balances work until someone starts fooling with the calibration. For example : Just what sort of military action requires explicit Congressional authorization these days -- full scale Soviet invasion? Where in the Constitution (and related documents) does it mention the Judicary acting as the sole moral and ethical arbiter of the land? Your faith in a few politically-appointed men and women is quite honest, but very, very dangerous.
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File a police report? Turn yourself in?
All I know is that something needs to be done. This law strikes me as well-suited for selective (targeted) prosecution.
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Seriously though. Does it ever occur to people that sometimes they have to FIGHT to get things their way? Not fighting in the sense of a debate-club discussion, but rather a nasty bar brawl; you are gonna get hurt a bit, but [hopefully] the other guy gets hurt more.
How did civil rights come about? Did Martin Luther King bitch to his fellow oppressed on the local bulletin board (ahem), write a congressman, and then go home? As I recall, he spent more than a few nights in jail, and eventually got shot to boot.
I'd rather be an insurance guy or something similarly boring then spending part of my life in a 4x6 cell, or even living in fear of same.
Well instead of a 4x6 cell you can have a 100x100 subdivision in some godless plastic suburb somewhere. You'll be safe there, have a fun life!
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Seriously -- what does your mayor or other elected official have to say about this? You guys really should speak up about it.
We use the same logic to attack our enemies before they are a threat, so, why not?
I doubt these folks' internet connections stay valid for very long once they start spewing email through their accounts, so that might have something to do with it....
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I knew, just by observing the prices for Apple equipment. Fistfuls of dollars on every single unit sold!
I, for one, hope that it does not; there is a real opportunity for Apple to show the recording industry how to make money in the modern marketplace.
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That will replenish the world's supply of fossil fuel -- us!
No, a throwaway comment isn't worth the effort.
Raed is hopefully just offline for the near to medium future. I am really hoping he didn't, say, get a HARM missile locked onto his satelite uplink....
1. Sell .iq domains (incidentally making fistfuls of money)
2. ???
3. Rebuild the Iraq infastructure
My point is that it will soon be unavoidable for any worker who's time and work is quantifiable in this way. Top executives, who mostly talk to one another, will of course be exempt.