"Hypertouch's attorney, John L. Fallat, said the CAN-SPAM Act offers little protection to the public, but they would use the few protections it offers to punish spammers."
If this case gets a lot of press coverage, it might help show people how utterly useless the CAN-SPAM act really is.
If a lawyer says its near useless, you know it must be bad. Hopefully the NY Times covers this in depth.
At least for once they are suing the company who uses the spammer and not just the spammer.
While you made a joke, this is a serious skill which people with distinguished palettes pride themselves on.
Personally, I would LOVE to have software where I could put a little food in an analyzer dish, scan it, and it could reverse engineer the dish. Does anybody know of anything like that?
Then how is it people 'own' recipes that they can sell the rights to? Seriously, what you said makes no sense. Maybe it has to do with secret ingredients and trade secrets. Because think about it, Tabasco has been a secret since it was created. So have many other dishes. I realize oftentimes the chef is the only one who knows a recipe and thats how it stays secret, but there HAS to be laws governing this.
I'm sorry, but the secret should NEVER be a specific brand of spice blends. Seriously. The secret is probably a spice or spices that are hard to find in american supermarkets, but that doesn't mean you should stick to one name brand of spices.
Sorry, I guess I should explain my paranoia. You see, I have this thought that were I to move, and be uprooted from my network of grocery stores, I may not be able to find the same brands later on. Thus, I feel that I cannot get too attached to brands, and instead need to learn the core essence of cooking and how to make things from scratch.
However, it is true you might be able to find certain ethnic ingredients only at those stores. For example, sichuan peppercorns are now banned for sale in the US (there was a NY Times article on it, technically they're considered a fruit). I cook a LOT of chinese food, sichuan in particular, so I managed to get them from behind the counter thanks to flirting with the girl who works at the local chinese supermarket (where they speak next to no english).
You'd be surprised what you can find at these 'hole in the wall' ethnic places.
" No such thing as too many cooks spoil the broth, I think."
Actually, once you're an experienced cook I think it works the other way around. Especially when you are speaking in terms of recipes off the internet.
One thing an experienced cook is able to do is look at a recipe, and get a feel for how it should come out tasting. One thing I do is look at several recipes for the same dish, and look at the variations and how the different ingredients are used. This lets me come to the conclusion about which I think would taste best. Now, obviously you shouldn't combine ALL of the ingredients from ALL recipes, but it certainly is worthwhile to pick and choose after you compare them.
A really simple dish would be to slice the mushrooms thinly. Boil the noodles and rinse them under cold water. Now add a tablespoon of oil to your wok or pan and fry the noodles for a minute. Add the mushrooms and 1-2 tablespoons of hoisin cook for 1 minute.
Hoisin is one of those sauces where the way to get the strongest flavor out of it is to heat it a bit before eating.
Foodnetwork knowns a thing or two about food, and when you search their EXTENSIVE database for recipes, it'll even tell you what show it was from. It at least lets you know that a dish was good enough to have Emeril cook it on his show or something like that.
So far the only game I've seen get death right is an old but still popular mud called Dragonrealms. There were clerics who could raise dead. When you died, usually the monster knocked you unconscious, but if it could think, it might kill you, or you might bleed to death. There were empaths who could heal you, but in order to be brought back to life you needed a high enough level cleric. You also had to do a quest several times to get 'deeds' which were used up while being rezzed, and if you didn't have them, it cost the casting cleric skills, or stats, I forget which. So clerics didn't like to rezz if you didn't have many deeds.
Also, there were a bunch of preparatory spells to bind the spirit to the corpse, to heal spiritual damage, etc, that lower level clerics could attend to before they could raise. Empaths were also needed to heal the body otherwise it would die right away again when it was raised.
People tended to help out corpses they found in the wilderness and drag them to the clerics guild. Also, people took death a lot more seriously because it was way more involved then "highlight target, hit rez spell". Not to mention the clerics could often times be picky about who they rezzed. Oh, the alternative to beingn raised was to walk the starry pathway......or in other words, roll up a new character.
PKing was almost NEVER a problem. In fact of all my years playing that game, I have never been PKed.
I realize that things need to change sometimes for a graphical MMO game, but the concept of making it a little bit time consuming, and making it a little risky for the person doing the raising, and making it a little more complex to enable more people to get involved for better results could do a lot if translated into your MMORPG of choice.
There is a difference between me thinking you're wrong and your argument being flawed. Please explain how your argument is not flawed since I've already explained how it is.
This printed circuitry stuff is really cool. I did a project in school on it. Think.....disposable packaging with computers built in. Imagine a cereal box that plays back with you *cough*Minority Report*cough*. I'm sure there will be some bad implmentations, but the good ones will be worth it.
No shit. You hit the nail on the head. I believe I know how this device is going to be made popular. People can't just go around taking pictures of attractive people they see (well, they can, but most wouldn't) with a normal camera. It's considered too rude. However, if you were passively wearing this device, it wouldn't seem nearly as rude.
Personally, I'm a bit voyeuristic, and would LOVE to have one of these.
However, if they somehow developed a REALLY solid (and by really solid I mean solid enough that Google could index in several ways) cataloging system, this could become an invaluable tool for doing research on social trends, it could be used for therapy, it could be used for education, even for making documentaries. There is a lot of potential, but first the mess of dealing with the data needs to be solved.
" Well, I'm not so scared of being followed and tracked. One reason being that I don't do anything I have to hide."
I'm glad this got marked troll. This "i don't have anything to hide" argument has always has a few fatal flaws, so it really isn't an acceptable argument. First off, what if things you didn't need to hide before suddenly needed to be kept secret. Ever download music, in the future, that information could mean the difference between free music and a hefty fine.
Second, don't make the decision for the rest of us. Are you that selfish of a human being that you cannot respect the desire for privacy others may have? By making your argument you neglect to take the viewpoints of other members of the society you live in into account.
Um.....his post was not commenting on whether or not it lived up to the quality. His post was commenting on how you need to purchase a $70 add on pack with firmware update, a cable, and encoding software to get DivX to play on this thing.
Yes, you're 100 little tanks are nice. But I'm sorry, no inherent design flaws or inefficiencies are going to cancel out the FEAR OF GOD it would put into the soldiers when they see a 40 story tall metal killing machine running at 100km/hr towards them.
How is it with electronic music? I listen to a lot of it, and often I don't have the foggiest what the name of a tune is. Does it handle the beats well?
Seriously, I know how much fun it is to bash the American legal system here. And usually it is deserved. But this is one instance where the law, and those that lay down the law, have gotten things dead on as they should be, fair and just.
I love how at 1:16 in the video, she tells it to stop, and it just keeps dancing, and then she says stop and it stops. Then I couldn't make out what she said (my japanese isn't that great yet), but it went crazy and starting blinking, like some evil insane robot of death.
Ok, that brings me to the next question. How long before people start modding these. And I'm not talking about just a clear plastic window in its chest. How long before those balls on his arm can hold a charge? How long before there are arm replacements, such as rotary saw, drill bit, and rusty nail add-ons. Personally, I will have one of these painted black, and make it look evil looking. If I ever have the money, I could make a whole army of black, red-eyed cyclops robots! w00t! Then all I have to do is replace the light in the head with a laser and I'll be set to takeover the......errr................garage. Your time has come foolish rodents.
Mice: SQWEEEAAAAAKKKKK!!
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): How are you gentlemen !!
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): All your cheese are belong to us.
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): You are on the way to destruction.
Mice: SQWWWWeeeeeeeeek!!
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): You have no chance to survive make your time.
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): HA HA HA HA....
If I were Gabe and Tyco, and I got sued by them, I would hold a press conference, advertise the hell out of it, and invite them to show up and argue their points. Let limit the ass reaming to just Gabe and Tyco, why not let the media tear them a new one, I mean, thats what they're trained to do.
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If this case gets a lot of press coverage, it might help show people how utterly useless the CAN-SPAM act really is.
If a lawyer says its near useless, you know it must be bad. Hopefully the NY Times covers this in depth.
At least for once they are suing the company who uses the spammer and not just the spammer.
Please mark parent off-topic. This is about food, not stock tips or jail cell decoration.
Personally, I would LOVE to have software where I could put a little food in an analyzer dish, scan it, and it could reverse engineer the dish. Does anybody know of anything like that?
I'm sorry, but the secret should NEVER be a specific brand of spice blends. Seriously. The secret is probably a spice or spices that are hard to find in american supermarkets, but that doesn't mean you should stick to one name brand of spices.
Sorry, I guess I should explain my paranoia. You see, I have this thought that were I to move, and be uprooted from my network of grocery stores, I may not be able to find the same brands later on. Thus, I feel that I cannot get too attached to brands, and instead need to learn the core essence of cooking and how to make things from scratch.
However, it is true you might be able to find certain ethnic ingredients only at those stores. For example, sichuan peppercorns are now banned for sale in the US (there was a NY Times article on it, technically they're considered a fruit). I cook a LOT of chinese food, sichuan in particular, so I managed to get them from behind the counter thanks to flirting with the girl who works at the local chinese supermarket (where they speak next to no english).
You'd be surprised what you can find at these 'hole in the wall' ethnic places.
Actually, once you're an experienced cook I think it works the other way around. Especially when you are speaking in terms of recipes off the internet.
One thing an experienced cook is able to do is look at a recipe, and get a feel for how it should come out tasting. One thing I do is look at several recipes for the same dish, and look at the variations and how the different ingredients are used. This lets me come to the conclusion about which I think would taste best. Now, obviously you shouldn't combine ALL of the ingredients from ALL recipes, but it certainly is worthwhile to pick and choose after you compare them.
Hoisin is one of those sauces where the way to get the strongest flavor out of it is to heat it a bit before eating.
Also, there were a bunch of preparatory spells to bind the spirit to the corpse, to heal spiritual damage, etc, that lower level clerics could attend to before they could raise. Empaths were also needed to heal the body otherwise it would die right away again when it was raised.
People tended to help out corpses they found in the wilderness and drag them to the clerics guild. Also, people took death a lot more seriously because it was way more involved then "highlight target, hit rez spell". Not to mention the clerics could often times be picky about who they rezzed. Oh, the alternative to beingn raised was to walk the starry pathway......or in other words, roll up a new character.
PKing was almost NEVER a problem. In fact of all my years playing that game, I have never been PKed.
I realize that things need to change sometimes for a graphical MMO game, but the concept of making it a little bit time consuming, and making it a little risky for the person doing the raising, and making it a little more complex to enable more people to get involved for better results could do a lot if translated into your MMORPG of choice.
That's not the reason for me being glad you got marked a troll. The reason is because your argument is fundamentally flawed, and therefore incorrect.
Personally, I'm a bit voyeuristic, and would LOVE to have one of these.
I'm glad this got marked troll. This "i don't have anything to hide" argument has always has a few fatal flaws, so it really isn't an acceptable argument. First off, what if things you didn't need to hide before suddenly needed to be kept secret. Ever download music, in the future, that information could mean the difference between free music and a hefty fine.
Second, don't make the decision for the rest of us. Are you that selfish of a human being that you cannot respect the desire for privacy others may have? By making your argument you neglect to take the viewpoints of other members of the society you live in into account.
Ok, that brings me to the next question. How long before people start modding these. And I'm not talking about just a clear plastic window in its chest. How long before those balls on his arm can hold a charge? How long before there are arm replacements, such as rotary saw, drill bit, and rusty nail add-ons. Personally, I will have one of these painted black, and make it look evil looking. If I ever have the money, I could make a whole army of black, red-eyed cyclops robots! w00t! Then all I have to do is replace the light in the head with a laser and I'll be set to takeover the......errr................garage. Your time has come foolish rodents.
Mice: SQWEEEAAAAAKKKKK!! ....
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): How are you gentlemen !!
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): All your cheese are belong to us.
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): You are on the way to destruction.
Mice: SQWWWWeeeeeeeeek!!
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): You have no chance to survive make your time.
Nuvo (Model-Exterminator MkII): HA HA HA HA
Ah yes......one can dream..........
That is an innaccurate statement. They HAVE made robots that help the elderly, they just haven't solved the whole "stop them from going on a rampage and destroying the city" problem.
Now imagine charging the surface of those blue balls with static electricity. Then the burglar will SURELY fear the blue balls (like most men do).