No, they had me dead to rights on all the torrents they had my IP listed for... the latest episodes of "Glee", "2 Broke Girls", "New Girl" and "How I met Your Mother"... plus a Miley Cyrus discography I was pulling down for my daughter (honest!!!)...
if Hollywood and the TV studios didn't keep making films and dramas with actors using cellphones while driving... they should be setting a big example with this behaviour not shown at all, or if it is shown, have the consequences shown in all their gory detail...
That was before it was set up... and had we joined then we'd be up there as a senior member, but the French wouldn't let us join... finally, when we are now in, a large number of us in the UK want out, but they won't let us have a referendum as they know how we'd vote on it... we really want to go back to how it should be; a common market... not an EUSSR which it is turning out to be dominated by unelected and unaccountable committees and where Merkel and Sarkozy cozy up in secret little conversations while the EU President is basically a Bilderberger figurehead who doesn't actually seem to have any say in the current crisis
After the Tunisian regime fell this year, Wikileaks published a cable showing that Microsoft had trained law enforcement officials serving ousted Tunisian president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. The company had set up a "program on cyber criminality" to cover the training, in a bid to get the Tunisian government to drop its open-source policy.
Of course, the fact that the incompetent police chief turned mayor that caused half the problems above got promoted to Lt Governor means that we'll chuck some more money on wasteful projects like his grand idea to buy and tear Midtown down to the tune of tens of millions at taxpayer expense, only to turn it around to a business that never actually signed a contract to develop the land in the way he announced. Oh, and the property was in tax arrears and could have been foreclosed on, but why bother when he's not spending his own money to buy it?
so who actually owns Midtown then if he's so keen to buy it with taxpayer's money? It wouldn't by any chance be a net of shell companies that he and his cronies actually own then?
It's like the issue of Fender, Gibson and Rickenbacker and all the cheap lookalikes who skirt the edges of the design patents by ensuring their lookalikes have sufficient difference from Fender, Gibson and Rickenbacker's actual real guitars to avoid being sued. The shapes of the headstocks are like, but not quite like the Fender and Gibson and Rickenbacker headstocks. The body shapes are like, but not exactly alike the real items. The problem for Samsung etc. is that Apple's design patent is too broad... a thin rectangular item with one button on the front and rounded corners... Not specific enough... it should NOT have been granted period
LightSquared interferes with most commercially viable GPS receivers.
By commercially viable you really mean cheapskates who failed to implement the recommended guidelines because it would have increased the component count and cost and are now screaming foul because their own devices cannot block out the adjacent band transmission because they failed to implement the proper rejection into their devices...
Or if there's a fire out grounds level, how do you get everyone out?
same way you get everybody out from the upper levels of a skyscraper when there's a fire at ground level... via protected fire staircases with anti-smoke doors etc.
they should have restricted the USB stick mailout to just their authorised dealers and service agents... and then mailshot all the customers with an offer coupon for a discount on a service and also a free software upgrade...
well they must know something we don't... apparently (I've read somewhere recently but can't remember where), they've also made a massive order for rations to be stockpiled for use by government agencies, way, way more than the normal replacement rate for stuff going out of date.
Something's coming down the pipeline... and it isn't gonna be nice.
it's not increasing the range per charge that matters for me (25 miles is plenty of range for my daily commute and then some), it's reducing the fscking weight of the battery pack and keeping the same range... reducing the charging time is a bonus... but those fscking batteries are heavy... and I have to cart the bike up three flights of stairs to my flat...
it was broken when politicians discovered they could use public money to "buy" votes by means of subsidies, "pork" projects and other methods of dispersing public money to their voter base...
or how patents held back the industrial revolution... see here
Once Watt's patents were secured and production started, a substantial portion of his energy was devoted to fending off rival inventors. In 1782, Watt secured an additional patent, made "necessary in consequence of... having been so unfairly anticipated, by [Matthew] Wasborough in the crank motion". More dramatically, in the 1790s, when the superior Hornblower engine was put into production, Boulton and Watt went after him with the full force of the legal system.
During the period of Watt's patents the United Kingdom added about 750 horsepower of steam engines per year. In the thirty years following Watt's patents, additional horsepower was added at a rate of more than 4,000 per year. Moreover, the fuel efficiency of steam engines changed little during the period of Watt's patent; while between 1810 and 1835 it is estimated to have increased by a factor of five.
As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft has held back the progress of computing by possibly some 15 years from what we could have now...
No, it has to be a sweet... so it would be Chocolate Coated Bacon... sadly, we would then have to wait for it to wrap right round the alphabet to come back through "C"... they're doing it in alphabetical order if you hadn't noticed...
I'm still waiting for the real dirt on the role of the banks and other financial institutions in the crash... I'm positive the Banks lent heavily on the US government to throttle Wikileaks access to funds
oh and PS. I would like to see a setting in Facebook which tells Google and other search spiders that my profile is NOT to be spidered... kinda like robots.txt... pity so many bloody ignore it though...
such as someone posting a compromising photo of you, or even more interesting, something you've posted but someone else shared/reposted.
you should be able to take down a compromising photo of you via the complaint process... and there should be a setting you can invoke for your posts to deny sharing. Difficult to stop reposting as basically they're taking what you posted and posting themselves.
it's NOT a "Slippery Slope" argument... it's the "Camel's nose under the tent wall" argument... where you aquiesce to minor increments and pretty soon, you find the entire camel is inside the tent...
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not available in my country... stupid networks... they could have my eyeballs watching the stream with ads... but no, they're stoopid...
No, they had me dead to rights on all the torrents they had my IP listed for... the latest episodes of "Glee", "2 Broke Girls", "New Girl" and "How I met Your Mother"... plus a Miley Cyrus discography I was pulling down for my daughter (honest!!!)...
I'll believe in corporations having personhood when Texas executes one...
if Hollywood and the TV studios didn't keep making films and dramas with actors using cellphones while driving... they should be setting a big example with this behaviour not shown at all, or if it is shown, have the consequences shown in all their gory detail...
That was before it was set up... and had we joined then we'd be up there as a senior member, but the French wouldn't let us join... finally, when we are now in, a large number of us in the UK want out, but they won't let us have a referendum as they know how we'd vote on it... we really want to go back to how it should be; a common market... not an EUSSR which it is turning out to be dominated by unelected and unaccountable committees and where Merkel and Sarkozy cozy up in secret little conversations while the EU President is basically a Bilderberger figurehead who doesn't actually seem to have any say in the current crisis
Any shills care to defend Microsoft then?
so who actually owns Midtown then if he's so keen to buy it with taxpayer's money? It wouldn't by any chance be a net of shell companies that he and his cronies actually own then?
It's like the issue of Fender, Gibson and Rickenbacker and all the cheap lookalikes who skirt the edges of the design patents by ensuring their lookalikes have sufficient difference from Fender, Gibson and Rickenbacker's actual real guitars to avoid being sued. The shapes of the headstocks are like, but not quite like the Fender and Gibson and Rickenbacker headstocks. The body shapes are like, but not exactly alike the real items. The problem for Samsung etc. is that Apple's design patent is too broad... a thin rectangular item with one button on the front and rounded corners... Not specific enough... it should NOT have been granted period
By commercially viable you really mean cheapskates who failed to implement the recommended guidelines because it would have increased the component count and cost and are now screaming foul because their own devices cannot block out the adjacent band transmission because they failed to implement the proper rejection into their devices...
same way you get everybody out from the upper levels of a skyscraper when there's a fire at ground level... via protected fire staircases with anti-smoke doors etc.
same in the coffee world with things like Kopi Luwak and Monsooned Malabar and don't get me started on just how pretentious espresso snobs can get...
they should have restricted the USB stick mailout to just their authorised dealers and service agents... and then mailshot all the customers with an offer coupon for a discount on a service and also a free software upgrade...
well they must know something we don't... apparently (I've read somewhere recently but can't remember where), they've also made a massive order for rations to be stockpiled for use by government agencies, way, way more than the normal replacement rate for stuff going out of date.
Something's coming down the pipeline... and it isn't gonna be nice.
it's not increasing the range per charge that matters for me (25 miles is plenty of range for my daily commute and then some), it's reducing the fscking weight of the battery pack and keeping the same range... reducing the charging time is a bonus... but those fscking batteries are heavy... and I have to cart the bike up three flights of stairs to my flat...
it was broken when politicians discovered they could use public money to "buy" votes by means of subsidies, "pork" projects and other methods of dispersing public money to their voter base...
someone got a patent on mathematics... it's an algorithm for deity's sake... it can be reduced to pure mathematical expressions...
As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft has held back the progress of computing by possibly some 15 years from what we could have now...
yippee!!!! now to discover if the microSD card in my Arnova 7 G2 can be bootable...
WTF???? I was under the impression posting anon didn't undo mods...
No, it has to be a sweet... so it would be Chocolate Coated Bacon... sadly, we would then have to wait for it to wrap right round the alphabet to come back through "C"... they're doing it in alphabetical order if you hadn't noticed...
I'm still waiting for the real dirt on the role of the banks and other financial institutions in the crash... I'm positive the Banks lent heavily on the US government to throttle Wikileaks access to funds
a suitable penalty would be loss of breathing privileges for the corporation...
oh and PS. I would like to see a setting in Facebook which tells Google and other search spiders that my profile is NOT to be spidered... kinda like robots.txt... pity so many bloody ignore it though...
you should be able to take down a compromising photo of you via the complaint process... and there should be a setting you can invoke for your posts to deny sharing. Difficult to stop reposting as basically they're taking what you posted and posting themselves.
it's NOT a "Slippery Slope" argument... it's the "Camel's nose under the tent wall" argument... where you aquiesce to minor increments and pretty soon, you find the entire camel is inside the tent...