From TFA:
The first defendant, from King's Lynn, said the BPI had no direct evidence of infringement, but the judges dismissed this and ordered him to make an immediate payment of £5,000.
Does that mean that there WAS evidence? Or that the judge just said "Bah, we don't need no evidence!"? A very poorly written article.
At least SOMEBODY made this point. I truly wonder what would happen if we stopped our greenhouse gas emissions entirely (not going to happen, but I'm playing with hypotheticals) and things still kept getting warmer?
Well, then they'll blame the decrease in pirates, of course.
It's not like these emails are showing up with a "FW: buy viagra now" header, but I do see your point (in reality, the only real difference is that it's showing up with one more "received from" line in the header). However, when I am receiving approximately 30 of the EXACT SAME SPAM (only difference: sender. Everything else, exactly the same, I've done comparisons) over the course of about 3 days, and I mark the first 10 as spam, I expect GMail to be able to detect that the next 20 messages are spam. Gmail catches MAYBE the last 2 or 3, and it is frustrating as hell. Why have a "Mark as spam" button if it doesn't do anything useful? I was expecting it to do some nice Bayesian filtering for me, but that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm curious as to what GMail uses as their spam filtering algorithm.
I forward all my domain email to my gmail account now, and I can verify that Gmail's spam filters suck. I stopped actually keeping track of the numbers, but after 3 months it was a pretty-dang-shoddy 79% effectiveness. The freeware (and kickass, but not useful if you want to check your email online) Popfile kicked the living crap out of Gmail - it was something like 97% effective after the first month of training, and never ever dropped lower than that. I gave GMail a chance, but they BLEW it!:)
The thing is... at least in Quebec, they have bastardized French as well. I remember a friend telling me about a french Canadian newscast that he was watching, where somebody slipped "pretty much" (in a french accent, of course) into the middle of his sentence.
"Change it yourself" is like saying "if skinheads painted Nazi slogans on your house wall, just repaint it". Is that really OK and is all that should be done? Nobody should be pursued for this?
If we want to use silly analogies here, what the article is basically saying is skinheads painted Nazi slogans on the house across the street from you, which offends you, and you want the people who own the house (and/or the spray paint manufacturer) to be held responsible for it.
Ummm... so what you're saying is - they should make it less US-centric to please you, a non-paying non-subscriber, even though you freely admit that you have no plans on paying to become a subscriber?
Furthermore, "geek up" the product so the alpha-testers will wait in line for 18 hours and pay twice as much as for competitor's hardware for this "priviledge".
Umm... there really isn't a "competitor's hardware" out there yet. That's the whole point of being "first to market".:)
I've read a bunch of the ones that were posted to her livejournal, and I can honestly say that I never got tired of the humour. It's not all that funny though if you haven't seen the movies she's referring to.
Rogers already had severely crippled usenet access as it is. They had farmed it out to Giganews, and cut the speeds down to something like 32 or 64 k/s. I've been using Google Groups for my usenet access ever since they bought out Deja.
Not even close to true. American women are renowned worldwide as being some of the sluttiest around! (although I think the British still win out) Whereas Canadian women are known to be pretty tight about giving it up (at least, by comparison).
And there is a definite difference between 720 and 1080 as well. I noticed when I first started watching NFL in HD. One of the broadcasters would broadcast in 720 (Fox, I think) and another (CBS?) would broadcast in 1080. The 1080 definitely looked TONS better.
I had a friend with the snake. It was pretty neat. I had the "Missing Link" and a "Square One" which basically just got to a point that it could never be solved. I never found a good algorithm for solving the Square One.
That implies that he considers his game time to be "work" - if he's doing it for the sheer joy and fun of it, then really it's like getting paid to play video games.
That implies that someone looking to blow himself up is necessarily technically uninclined. It also implies that the only computers that would be confiscated would be those of the lowest end of the rung. A smart terrorist cell would only let their most intelligent operatives operate the computer-based stuff, and then deliver instructions to the subordinates in person.
I've been trying to catch Brainiac here at home, but I always miss it... Gf always vetoes it when I try to switch to Sky One on Thursday nights:)
Seems pretty "fair use" esque to me
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Having played with it a little bit (they have it up here), a "snippet" appears to be a few pages in either direction of your search result. And they provide handy dandy links to purchase the book if you so desire. If I was a publisher, I would think this was a GREAT way to have people find my books... but then, I am NOT a publisher, so what do I know?
What astounds me is that it took until 2000 for him to get the domain back. 5 years!!! Sweet mother of crap. And another 5 years for them to find the damn guy. I wonder if that $65 million judgement is even close to the amount of money that Cohen raked in via sex.com.
Also - Tijuana? Are you kidding me? You're fleeing from the law, and you go to Tijuana? That's like being wanted for murder in Detroit, and fleeing to Windsor. For all his con-man smarts, he clearly ain't all THAT smart.
Most of the old-school journalists I know have Macs at home. Why learn a new operating system for your home computer? But the younger ones are more Windows-based, because they are cheap ass bastards.:)
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At least a bouncer is *somewhat* related to a security position... Arabian Horses and Disaster Management, I don't see the link.
From TFA: The first defendant, from King's Lynn, said the BPI had no direct evidence of infringement, but the judges dismissed this and ordered him to make an immediate payment of £5,000. Does that mean that there WAS evidence? Or that the judge just said "Bah, we don't need no evidence!"? A very poorly written article.
At least SOMEBODY made this point. I truly wonder what would happen if we stopped our greenhouse gas emissions entirely (not going to happen, but I'm playing with hypotheticals) and things still kept getting warmer? Well, then they'll blame the decrease in pirates, of course.
It's not like these emails are showing up with a "FW: buy viagra now" header, but I do see your point (in reality, the only real difference is that it's showing up with one more "received from" line in the header). However, when I am receiving approximately 30 of the EXACT SAME SPAM (only difference: sender. Everything else, exactly the same, I've done comparisons) over the course of about 3 days, and I mark the first 10 as spam, I expect GMail to be able to detect that the next 20 messages are spam. Gmail catches MAYBE the last 2 or 3, and it is frustrating as hell. Why have a "Mark as spam" button if it doesn't do anything useful? I was expecting it to do some nice Bayesian filtering for me, but that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm curious as to what GMail uses as their spam filtering algorithm.
I forward all my domain email to my gmail account now, and I can verify that Gmail's spam filters suck. I stopped actually keeping track of the numbers, but after 3 months it was a pretty-dang-shoddy 79% effectiveness. The freeware (and kickass, but not useful if you want to check your email online) Popfile kicked the living crap out of Gmail - it was something like 97% effective after the first month of training, and never ever dropped lower than that. I gave GMail a chance, but they BLEW it! :)
Actually, I don't think that's what he was saying. He sorta fudged things a bit to get his clients to buy AMD instead of Intel.
The thing is... at least in Quebec, they have bastardized French as well. I remember a friend telling me about a french Canadian newscast that he was watching, where somebody slipped "pretty much" (in a french accent, of course) into the middle of his sentence.
"Change it yourself" is like saying "if skinheads painted Nazi slogans on your house wall, just repaint it". Is that really OK and is all that should be done? Nobody should be pursued for this? If we want to use silly analogies here, what the article is basically saying is skinheads painted Nazi slogans on the house across the street from you, which offends you, and you want the people who own the house (and/or the spray paint manufacturer) to be held responsible for it.
Ummm... so what you're saying is - they should make it less US-centric to please you, a non-paying non-subscriber, even though you freely admit that you have no plans on paying to become a subscriber?
Furthermore, "geek up" the product so the alpha-testers will wait in line for 18 hours and pay twice as much as for competitor's hardware for this "priviledge". Umm... there really isn't a "competitor's hardware" out there yet. That's the whole point of being "first to market". :)
I've read a bunch of the ones that were posted to her livejournal, and I can honestly say that I never got tired of the humour. It's not all that funny though if you haven't seen the movies she's referring to.
Rogers already had severely crippled usenet access as it is. They had farmed it out to Giganews, and cut the speeds down to something like 32 or 64 k/s. I've been using Google Groups for my usenet access ever since they bought out Deja.
Umm... I don't pay anything for Slashdot, I dunno about you.
Not even close to true. American women are renowned worldwide as being some of the sluttiest around! (although I think the British still win out) Whereas Canadian women are known to be pretty tight about giving it up (at least, by comparison).
Ummm... if people with this gene mutation cannot get infected with HIV, how was his first test positive?
And there is a definite difference between 720 and 1080 as well. I noticed when I first started watching NFL in HD. One of the broadcasters would broadcast in 720 (Fox, I think) and another (CBS?) would broadcast in 1080. The 1080 definitely looked TONS better.
I had a friend with the snake. It was pretty neat. I had the "Missing Link" and a "Square One" which basically just got to a point that it could never be solved. I never found a good algorithm for solving the Square One.
That implies that he considers his game time to be "work" - if he's doing it for the sheer joy and fun of it, then really it's like getting paid to play video games.
That implies that someone looking to blow himself up is necessarily technically uninclined. It also implies that the only computers that would be confiscated would be those of the lowest end of the rung. A smart terrorist cell would only let their most intelligent operatives operate the computer-based stuff, and then deliver instructions to the subordinates in person.
*falls off chair* Oh my god, I wish I had some mod points.
I've been trying to catch Brainiac here at home, but I always miss it... Gf always vetoes it when I try to switch to Sky One on Thursday nights :)
Having played with it a little bit (they have it up here), a "snippet" appears to be a few pages in either direction of your search result. And they provide handy dandy links to purchase the book if you so desire. If I was a publisher, I would think this was a GREAT way to have people find my books... but then, I am NOT a publisher, so what do I know?
MythBusters had an episode trying to recreate the brown note. They couldn't do it.
What astounds me is that it took until 2000 for him to get the domain back. 5 years!!! Sweet mother of crap. And another 5 years for them to find the damn guy. I wonder if that $65 million judgement is even close to the amount of money that Cohen raked in via sex.com. Also - Tijuana? Are you kidding me? You're fleeing from the law, and you go to Tijuana? That's like being wanted for murder in Detroit, and fleeing to Windsor. For all his con-man smarts, he clearly ain't all THAT smart.
Most of the old-school journalists I know have Macs at home. Why learn a new operating system for your home computer? But the younger ones are more Windows-based, because they are cheap ass bastards. :)