Myself, I'm not too sure, because of the simple fact that there's nobody who would be good enough and/or powerful enough to hand out these licenses. Politicians would give them to everyone that they liked.
Otherwise, I'd FULLY support it. In addition, I wouldn't dare give myself such a license.;)
I guess this was VW's prototype for the JETta? So, if it WAS a prototype, then would it violate any patents, seeing as they didn't put it into production?:P
(OK, OK, OK, I know, Jetta's the name of a wind... but I couldn't resist.;))
Of course, on the steering wheel, a socket driver, a 24mm socket, and a screwdriver are all I need to take it off. In under one minute. Back on is the same amount of time, assuming that I had previously put markings on to align the wheel.
Oh, and my car is a 21 year old car with a fair amount of visible rust, and right now it's not even drivable. So, I'm not thinking anyone's gonna steal it.:)
For example, if RocketChip (a certain ECU reprogramming company that the Volkswagen TDI crowd prefers) were to get a request to disable the immobilizer on an ECU, they'd do it.
So, pop the hood, take out the ECU, send it to a reprogramming company, ask for the immobilizer to be deleted, and voila, you have no immobilizer. Or, if you want to steal a certain model of vehicle, have an ECU ready to go.
Older immobilizer equipped cars are even more of a joke. Unplug the immobilizer control unit, short out the right pins, and drive off.
Not that I suggest stealing cars. I'm just saying that even your high-tech, impossible to defeat immobilizer systems are easily defeated.
That doesn't necessarily mean that you successfully knocked someone up, and the results of that successfully either got someone knocked up, or knocked up themselves...
Some slight manual configuration necessary, but it's all automatic and VERY smooth after that. Autodetects which network I'm on, sets default printers as necessary, etc., etc.
Get an analog cell phone. Get a data adaptor for it. (it's just an RJ-11 jack that plugs into the cell, and makes it act like a landline)
Yes, the cell phone has to be analog. Digital phones don't give you this option, due to the lossy compression.
Alternately, get a VOIP service that works with fax systems (important - takes more bandwidth, costs more money, but has not as lossy compression as cheap VOIP), and a good UPS.
I would make that last month of service as costly for them as you can.
Call in and bitch about the service being too slow.
Fire up BitTorrent, and start downloading Linux distros like there's no tomorrow. And seed them. All of them. Don't throttle the upload, either. (and, of course, disable BitTorrent when they're on a service call)
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You realize you can change your date settings, right?
;)
It showed up as 2006-02-22 for me.
A friend of mine feels the same way about it.
;)
Myself, I'm not too sure, because of the simple fact that there's nobody who would be good enough and/or powerful enough to hand out these licenses. Politicians would give them to everyone that they liked.
Otherwise, I'd FULLY support it. In addition, I wouldn't dare give myself such a license.
I guess this was VW's prototype for the JETta? So, if it WAS a prototype, then would it violate any patents, seeing as they didn't put it into production? :P
;))
(OK, OK, OK, I know, Jetta's the name of a wind... but I couldn't resist.
Duh!
:)
I should have thought of that...
Of course, on the steering wheel, a socket driver, a 24mm socket, and a screwdriver are all I need to take it off. In under one minute. Back on is the same amount of time, assuming that I had previously put markings on to align the wheel.
Oh, and my car is a 21 year old car with a fair amount of visible rust, and right now it's not even drivable. So, I'm not thinking anyone's gonna steal it.
Well, my car has a distributor-style diesel injection pump, but seeing as you need a whole lot of tools to reinstall that, I think I'll pass. ;)
However, on a gasser... take the spark plug wires.
Well, other companies can reprogram the ECU.
For example, if RocketChip (a certain ECU reprogramming company that the Volkswagen TDI crowd prefers) were to get a request to disable the immobilizer on an ECU, they'd do it.
So, pop the hood, take out the ECU, send it to a reprogramming company, ask for the immobilizer to be deleted, and voila, you have no immobilizer. Or, if you want to steal a certain model of vehicle, have an ECU ready to go.
Older immobilizer equipped cars are even more of a joke. Unplug the immobilizer control unit, short out the right pins, and drive off.
Not that I suggest stealing cars. I'm just saying that even your high-tech, impossible to defeat immobilizer systems are easily defeated.
IIRC, Opera was working on moving to such a system... if so, that'll be good.
:D
However, I tagged this article "pointrelease". I vote for all tiny point releases of an app to get that tag.
At least we don't get notices of Joe's Notepad Clone hitting version 2.93.2460 on here...
Or even once? :D
You are smart.
I am contradicting my sentence because "insert" is a verb.
Cue annoying testimonial about how this is the first "easy" 3D modeling app that I can understand...
;)
Oh, wait. It is the first easy 3D modeling app that I can understand.
No.
Illegally abusing such a monopoly, however, is.
I would pull the "it's not a CD" card.
They'll probably say that CDs and DVDs cannot be returned unless they're in original shrinkwrap.
Well, this isn't a CD.
It's a piece of plastic that is compatible with some CD players.
That doesn't necessarily mean that you successfully knocked someone up, and the results of that successfully either got someone knocked up, or knocked up themselves...
It just means that you're an old fart.
I only got 2 out of 8 correct because I didn't answer a lot of questions.
I would argue that it's even safer to NOT go download smileys and screensavers.
I did give eMule a clean and Kazaa a spyware vote because I knew for sure there. Those are the only two that I did.
So you want a router that supports 802.11bang? :D
Of course, going back to the OS/2 argument...
OS/2 ran Windows 3.x apps just fine. Better than Windows, in fact. (Although, it was accomplished using Windows itself...)
Anyway, Windows apps looked exactly like, um, Windows apps, with the Windows look and feel.
Granted, OS/2's UI paradigm was closer to the one used by Windows than this would be, but...
Myself, I use Access Connections.
Some slight manual configuration necessary, but it's all automatic and VERY smooth after that. Autodetects which network I'm on, sets default printers as necessary, etc., etc.
I only apply firmware upgrades when something is broken, and needs fixed! :P
I already have done a complete 180 on recommending D-Link, since much of the D-Link equipment I use and work with has failed spontaneously.
And that was BEFORE this.
Get an analog cell phone. Get a data adaptor for it. (it's just an RJ-11 jack that plugs into the cell, and makes it act like a landline)
Yes, the cell phone has to be analog. Digital phones don't give you this option, due to the lossy compression.
Alternately, get a VOIP service that works with fax systems (important - takes more bandwidth, costs more money, but has not as lossy compression as cheap VOIP), and a good UPS.
I would make that last month of service as costly for them as you can.
Call in and bitch about the service being too slow.
Fire up BitTorrent, and start downloading Linux distros like there's no tomorrow. And seed them. All of them. Don't throttle the upload, either. (and, of course, disable BitTorrent when they're on a service call)
Someone did and redicted it towards "deer".
Looks like it's time for a disambig page?
Opera flashed the Google page, then displayed an SWF saying "Secunia", then loaded the Secunia page. URLs remained correct.
IE 6 (XPSP2) flashed Google, then loaded the Secunia page. Again, URLs remained correct...
The idea is that the patent would cause the competition to not exist, at least in these companies dreams.
Actually, the 970 didn't allow you to choose endianness.