I have an admitted fanboy friend that has had all those items throughout the years, except for the 20th anniversary mac.
I have two of them. ("Wow! You must be rich!" -- Milton Baines)
One was my sister's. The other belonged to a friend of hers and had suffered a lightning strike, used for salvage to upgrade hers. One of them has a TV tuner. They gather dust.
I also had a chance to own an Apple color pen plotter.
If the message is so strong, why overshadow it with the name? It's practically using his name in vanity. Isn't that supposed to be a sin? "Aren't I important! I know someone famous!"
Have you tried professing it without name-dropping Jesus?
Why should he have to? I'm an atheist myself, but I for the life of me cannot understand why anyone would have a problem with such a sentiment, regardless of who expresses it.
I was with you until you said this. That was never implied, nor even insinuated.
Have you not been following the stories regarding TPB? Or even this fine article?
I'm not actually against TPB, or even what it entails.
Neither am I. Those seeking to bar access to it though aren't interested in prosecuting crime (TPB should be treated as a honeypot by law enforcement) but rather taking a stance of preventing temptation. Thinking for the children.
Nice strawman. Going from copyright infringement to an actual crime is just a bit of a stretch.
Should I have gone with a website that documents all the intersections without red-light cameras so as to compare copyright infringement to a moving violation? That smacks of another dreaded car analogy. I went with prostitution due to it being a private transaction for services between consenting adults, where what is tangibly lost at least was willingly parted with.
"Selling is legal; fucking is legal. Why isn't `selling fucking' legal?" -- George Carlin, RIP
Maybe you can come up with a comparable civil action (that an industry wants to elevate to being criminal) that I can use for future analogies?
I've used it to obtain difficult-to-find material (the 1981 HBO PeeWee Herman show comes to mind) that is still under copyright.
That is available on DVD, $8.49 at Amazon.com, $5.95 + $2.98 s&h for previously owned. (I paid $7.98 for it in 2006.) I'm all for getting unobtainium by whatever non-invasive, non-destructive electronic means that doesn't deprive anything from others, but you should be willing to pay for it when it does finally come to market. I've had that special on VHS recorded off HBO for years until finally getting it on DVD.
I'd consider downloading the movie Moontrap if it were available since it doesn't appear it will ever be shown on cable again or released on DVD (even having its title altered to "Moonwarp" in all but one mention in My Name Is Bruce), but I'd still buy it if they surprised me by releasing it.
The desire for unobtainable works got me to buy Prime Risk as a PAL release of Alarmstufe 1 in 5.1 Mono German(*), convert it to NTSC, and restore the English audio from an HBO EP VHS tape (and the original title). The resync of the audio was a bitch, especially accommodating differing splices at the original reel changes and the occasional splice of broken film. But I have no plans to upload it anywhere nor to allow others to download it from me.
Some works appear to be destined to become pocket-copyright. Defining the term, it's when it is withheld from the market such that all released copies cease to be usable (obsolescence, expiry of media to inaccessibility, DRM, whatever) as a public domain work and the only copies that exist are held by a private party seeking either to maintain monopoly control beyond the duration of copyright or the destruction of the work so that the public never receives their end of the copyright bargain that granted their limited-time monopoly in exchange for a delayed but eventual entrance into the public domain.
"I am altering the deal; pray I don't alter it any further."
What, am I now engaging in hyperbole in comparing those behind eternal copyright extension with Darth Vader?
(*) Every channel of the 5.1 audio in that release is the same mono track repeated, so I couldn't even just replace the center channel with the English dialog and keep the digital quality effects tracks in the others.
TPB is a forum for exchanging infringing copyright material.
You say it largely contains information about where copyright infringement is occurring. It reveals this information equally to everyone who wants to look, including the people whose copyright is being infringed and their agents in law enforcement. Nowhere would you find such an organized and open collection of information about ongoing criminal activity. And it's freely volunteered by the infringers!
And you want to shut it down?!
It can only because it is so embarrassing, like a website identifying streets where prostitution occurs in cities around the world. So much crime committed out in the open and not enough resources to directly combat it? Easier to kill the messenger. Out of sight, out of mind.
Keep going down this slope and you'll make people not want to report any crime lest they be arrested for having criminal knowledge.
Can you power your car from the radio reception your car radio picks up?
Yes.
Well, realistically, there probably isn't enough signal power to drive the whole car, but there's certainly enough to power a radio in the car. But I'd imagine that the FCC would step in if you tried to power an entire car that way. The power you extract from the signal degrades radio reception for others, reducing the usable range of the signal. And since the effect is directional, your device can be located.
I think there will be demand for as many as six of them, worldwide.
Well, yeah. That gives an octahedral distribution network that can span the globe.
You can use it to teleport power from orbiting solar panels rather than deal with the hazards of high-powered microwave transmission to wildlife and aircraft.
Leo Laporte (of The Screensavers, Call For Help, and now the TWiT Network) reported on this months ago on multiple podcasts, I'm sure including the Security Now podcast. And yes, even if you think you're being smart by giving a fake e-mail address, it doesn't matter since the site you were on is handing the billing information over to this other site (and gets paid for the referral).
Don't try to be clever on-line after you've just given someone your credit card number. The site coming up to you saying, "I see you just spent some money. Can I have some too?" is not just some panhandler you can easily deceive or ignore. Pay attention: it may be opt-out and thus not even safe to kill the browser to avoid communicating anything to the extra unwanted service vendor.
Eventually we will all have our own immortal Cylon simulacra dopplegangers.
Except of course that we won't own them ourselves. They'll be owned by corporations who will buy and sell them like patent portfolios and then sue you back for failure to license yourself.
That's the promise behind a patent issued Thursday to Bill Gates and his 20 co-inventors for 'Personal Data Mining', which Microsoft notes 'can include a monetization component' that 'could initiate an auction to sell information to the highest bidder.'
'Cause it's not identity theft if you get paid for it?
Eventually we will all have our own immortal Cylon simulacra dopplegangers.
In fact, they boil at absolute zero And there's no matter there for them to live off of If you tried
But then I'm no scientist I just work here As a Space Transportation System Orbital Vehicle maintainer A Space Transportation System Orbital Vehicle-man
And think I'm going to be late Getting home for dinner
Shouldn't we be happy about this? I mean, they aren't even TRYING to attack a regular surfer, but only one who comes through google images.
Yeah, because everyone knows Google Images users are Slightly Irregular.
That means they are trying a pretty limiting technique which I presume is because that all other methods will not yield as good results.
Or it's a proof-of-concept implementation being tested for more insidious deployment, say attacking only those who are coming from a (your!) bank's domain, or a government site, or a link from Google Mail embedded in an e-mail's image fetch to confirm your identity as a Chinese dissident.
Just yesterday, when searching for "LEGO Mohammad", NoScript noted a clickjacking attempt when I tried to right-click an image while in the Google Images frame, but not when I unframed it, so yeah, NoScript seems to catch it.
Sebastian Doyle: [reading] "Vote Fascist for a Third Glorious Decade of Total Law Enforcement"? Jake Bullet: [reading] "Be a Government Informer. Betray Your Family & Friends. Fabulous Prizes to be Won"?
Sounds a lot like the CacheCard from SiliconDust for Series1 TiVos, except instead of an SDRAM DIMM it uses an SSD. And the CacheCard doesn't sit between the devices but instead connects to the TiVo motherboard's card-edge connector, provides an Ethernet port, and is designed only to cache a particular 0.5 GiB part of the drive.
But since the SDRAM loses its contents on power off, it does add significant time to test and fill at startup, while the SSD would be ready nearly immediately.
I had the same problem with an aftermarket cruise control installed in a Honda Civic hatchback. But mine was triggered by trying to Resume a cruising speed of 75 MPH on the Interstate (legal). Took the car in three times, twice they replaced the electronics. I never managed a reproducible test case.
It could have been the Resume button was double-triggering in a short interval. I can't test it now: that car got T-boned in an intersection after the driver of one SUV waved me to proceed into the path of another SUV in the second lane obscured by the first car. (What's the universal hand gesture for, "No. I can't see around you. You go.")
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I have an admitted fanboy friend that has had all those items throughout the years, except for the 20th anniversary mac.
I have two of them. ("Wow! You must be rich!" -- Milton Baines)
One was my sister's. The other belonged to a friend of hers and had suffered a lightning strike, used for salvage to upgrade hers. One of them has a TV tuner. They gather dust.
I also had a chance to own an Apple color pen plotter.
"Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has called Apple's iPad a 'nice reader' but claims netbooks are the way forward.
"Netbooks are the answer. Humans must buy netbooks. They must go to the stores."
"That is incorrect. Tablets are the answer. Humans must buy tablets. They must go to the stores."
If the message is so strong, why overshadow it with the name? It's practically using his name in vanity. Isn't that supposed to be a sin? "Aren't I important! I know someone famous!"
Have you tried professing it without name-dropping Jesus?
Why should he have to? I'm an atheist myself, but I for the life of me cannot understand why anyone would have a problem with such a sentiment, regardless of who expresses it.
Because name-dropping is asinine.
I can see the picket signs over this now: "God is Not a Tumah!"
or do you realize [God] is there and strive to live differently as a result?
Sometimes living differently isn't better, especially for those around you.
Put another way: don't make me strive to live differently; you wouldn't like me when I live differently.
I profess nothing more than what Jesus did: Love everyone even if they hate you.
Have you tried professing it without name-dropping Jesus?
But these drones could be armed with tasers, non-lethal projectiles and ultra-powerful disorienting strobe lighting apparatus, reports Wired.
Remind me never to visit London without my Dalekanium shell to protect my privacy and freedom from the local government.
And you want to shut it down?!
I was with you until you said this. That was never implied, nor even insinuated.
Have you not been following the stories regarding TPB? Or even this fine article?
I'm not actually against TPB, or even what it entails.
Neither am I. Those seeking to bar access to it though aren't interested in prosecuting crime (TPB should be treated as a honeypot by law enforcement) but rather taking a stance of preventing temptation. Thinking for the children.
Nice strawman. Going from copyright infringement to an actual crime is just a bit of a stretch.
Should I have gone with a website that documents all the intersections without red-light cameras so as to compare copyright infringement to a moving violation? That smacks of another dreaded car analogy. I went with prostitution due to it being a private transaction for services between consenting adults, where what is tangibly lost at least was willingly parted with.
"Selling is legal; fucking is legal. Why isn't `selling fucking' legal?" -- George Carlin, RIP
Maybe you can come up with a comparable civil action (that an industry wants to elevate to being criminal) that I can use for future analogies?
I've used it to obtain difficult-to-find material (the 1981 HBO PeeWee Herman show comes to mind) that is still under copyright.
That is available on DVD, $8.49 at Amazon.com, $5.95 + $2.98 s&h for previously owned. (I paid $7.98 for it in 2006.) I'm all for getting unobtainium by whatever non-invasive, non-destructive electronic means that doesn't deprive anything from others, but you should be willing to pay for it when it does finally come to market. I've had that special on VHS recorded off HBO for years until finally getting it on DVD.
I'd consider downloading the movie Moontrap if it were available since it doesn't appear it will ever be shown on cable again or released on DVD (even having its title altered to "Moonwarp" in all but one mention in My Name Is Bruce), but I'd still buy it if they surprised me by releasing it.
The desire for unobtainable works got me to buy Prime Risk as a PAL release of Alarmstufe 1 in 5.1 Mono German(*), convert it to NTSC, and restore the English audio from an HBO EP VHS tape (and the original title). The resync of the audio was a bitch, especially accommodating differing splices at the original reel changes and the occasional splice of broken film. But I have no plans to upload it anywhere nor to allow others to download it from me.
Some works appear to be destined to become pocket-copyright. Defining the term, it's when it is withheld from the market such that all released copies cease to be usable (obsolescence, expiry of media to inaccessibility, DRM, whatever) as a public domain work and the only copies that exist are held by a private party seeking either to maintain monopoly control beyond the duration of copyright or the destruction of the work so that the public never receives their end of the copyright bargain that granted their limited-time monopoly in exchange for a delayed but eventual entrance into the public domain.
"I am altering the deal; pray I don't alter it any further."
What, am I now engaging in hyperbole in comparing those behind eternal copyright extension with Darth Vader?
(*) Every channel of the 5.1 audio in that release is the same mono track repeated, so I couldn't even just replace the center channel with the English dialog and keep the digital quality effects tracks in the others.
TPB is a forum for exchanging infringing copyright material.
You say it largely contains information about where copyright infringement is occurring. It reveals this information equally to everyone who wants to look, including the people whose copyright is being infringed and their agents in law enforcement. Nowhere would you find such an organized and open collection of information about ongoing criminal activity. And it's freely volunteered by the infringers!
And you want to shut it down?!
It can only because it is so embarrassing, like a website identifying streets where prostitution occurs in cities around the world. So much crime committed out in the open and not enough resources to directly combat it? Easier to kill the messenger. Out of sight, out of mind.
Keep going down this slope and you'll make people not want to report any crime lest they be arrested for having criminal knowledge.
4) Allegedly molest barely legal girl, pissing off wife
"Allegedly molest".... So you originate the spreading of the rumor?
Just don't make the new immunity cells so aggressive that they escape the body and start to eat the ink off of the all books in the world.
Can you power your car from the radio reception your car radio picks up?
Yes.
Well, realistically, there probably isn't enough signal power to drive the whole car, but there's certainly enough to power a radio in the car. But I'd imagine that the FCC would step in if you tried to power an entire car that way. The power you extract from the signal degrades radio reception for others, reducing the usable range of the signal. And since the effect is directional, your device can be located.
I think there will be demand for as many as six of them, worldwide.
Well, yeah. That gives an octahedral distribution network that can span the globe.
You can use it to teleport power from orbiting solar panels rather than deal with the hazards of high-powered microwave transmission to wildlife and aircraft.
From your poetry I thought you might be a Vogon ;)
Well, I'm certainly no Elton John.
Leo Laporte (of The Screensavers, Call For Help, and now the TWiT Network) reported on this months ago on multiple podcasts, I'm sure including the Security Now podcast. And yes, even if you think you're being smart by giving a fake e-mail address, it doesn't matter since the site you were on is handing the billing information over to this other site (and gets paid for the referral).
Don't try to be clever on-line after you've just given someone your credit card number. The site coming up to you saying, "I see you just spent some money. Can I have some too?" is not just some panhandler you can easily deceive or ignore. Pay attention: it may be opt-out and thus not even safe to kill the browser to avoid communicating anything to the extra unwanted service vendor.
Eventually we will all have our own immortal Cylon simulacra dopplegangers.
Except of course that we won't own them ourselves. They'll be owned by corporations who will buy and sell them like patent portfolios and then sue you back for failure to license yourself.
That's the promise behind a patent issued Thursday to Bill Gates and his 20 co-inventors for 'Personal Data Mining', which Microsoft notes 'can include a monetization component' that 'could initiate an auction to sell information to the highest bidder.'
'Cause it's not identity theft if you get paid for it?
Eventually we will all have our own immortal Cylon simulacra dopplegangers.
Space is a hostile environment for living things
In fact, they boil at absolute zero
And there's no matter there for them to live off of
If you tried
But then I'm no scientist
I just work here
As a Space Transportation System Orbital Vehicle maintainer
A Space Transportation System Orbital Vehicle-man
And think I'm going to be late
Getting home for dinner
Shouldn't we be happy about this? I mean, they aren't even TRYING to attack a regular surfer, but only one who comes through google images.
Yeah, because everyone knows Google Images users are Slightly Irregular.
That means they are trying a pretty limiting technique which I presume is because that all other methods will not yield as good results.
Or it's a proof-of-concept implementation being tested for more insidious deployment, say attacking only those who are coming from a (your!) bank's domain, or a government site, or a link from Google Mail embedded in an e-mail's image fetch to confirm your identity as a Chinese dissident.
Just yesterday, when searching for "LEGO Mohammad", NoScript noted a clickjacking attempt when I tried to right-click an image while in the Google Images frame, but not when I unframed it, so yeah, NoScript seems to catch it.
Sebastian Doyle: [reading] "Vote Fascist for a Third Glorious Decade of Total Law Enforcement"?
Jake Bullet: [reading] "Be a Government Informer. Betray Your Family & Friends. Fabulous Prizes to be Won"?
Sounds a lot like the CacheCard from SiliconDust for Series1 TiVos, except instead of an SDRAM DIMM it uses an SSD. And the CacheCard doesn't sit between the devices but instead connects to the TiVo motherboard's card-edge connector, provides an Ethernet port, and is designed only to cache a particular 0.5 GiB part of the drive.
But since the SDRAM loses its contents on power off, it does add significant time to test and fill at startup, while the SSD would be ready nearly immediately.
new bodies to disabled people
You will be upgraded.
I had the same problem with an aftermarket cruise control installed in a Honda Civic hatchback. But mine was triggered by trying to Resume a cruising speed of 75 MPH on the Interstate (legal). Took the car in three times, twice they replaced the electronics. I never managed a reproducible test case.
It could have been the Resume button was double-triggering in a short interval. I can't test it now: that car got T-boned in an intersection after the driver of one SUV waved me to proceed into the path of another SUV in the second lane obscured by the first car. (What's the universal hand gesture for, "No. I can't see around you. You go.")
Sounds like someone's bureaucratese euphemism for "Security screwup".
To borrow terminology from another source, it sounds like a Foothold Situation to me.