Yep, I agree. You do not steal rights from the defenceless. You can sign a contract at 18, you can't at 8. F&%k anyone who even considers stealing the ideas of children and commercialize them! Laws exist principally to protect children from exploitation. Without that you have no legal system.
I had a RL camera up the road that would go spastic every time my car, or anyone elses, would go near the intersection. I'll tell you, public strobe lights while driving do no make for a safer driving experience. Its almost as harrowing as any time I receive a phone call, which now involves driving while successfully negotiating a bluetooth link, screaming at my 'hands free' unit until it finally picks up once all the audio finishes routing properly, then tilt my head back so the speaker can hear me... but thats another administrative cluster f$#k.
I guess the question is how many false positives do these damn cameras cause. Even if not for the highly defective cameras like the one near here, I constantly find other drivers stuck in the middle of red-light intersections who are ensuring the safety of the intersection, even if they're still clearing the intersection after the lights have cycled. I can imagine these dummy cameras must be really easy to contest in court.
$2000 for just 1 year of a shitty Cello song? Damn, bitch, what u smoking? Maybe she should do something hard, like build a streaming music service with ad-incorporated billing built in to disperse her music on the web. What, is that too hard? You don't hear about the starving artists on Deviant complaining about their lousy turn around. $0.0042 might be low for an entire album play, but its not like these people own the song, they just got to play it once. Thats assuming anyone was even listening to the radio station. Its rare for a work of art to appreciate value so quickly, so why is this artist so hell bent on complaining about her fairly modest income? Why doesn't she just do some public performances like other musicians who want quick, real cash?
I don't think there are a lack of innovators as much as a lack of highly innovative companies who are the only ones with enough money to 'innovate' through the patent system. I'm a Computer Systems Engineer. The year I was awarded my degree, Australia inherited DMCA which stopped tech innovation in this country. We simply do not have enough tech firms with an R&D department well financed enough to legally defend itself for the crime of 'innovation'.
I had almost the same experience two XMAS's ago with my sister when she was bought a Skyrim disc and it automatically registered against my steam account despite riding along with 0 steam logos on the box.
I normally think that Steam offers a lot of value to PC users, my own game collection is quite massive, and even in this instance, while annoying, Steam customer service fixed it up after about a day. That said... what a complete f$#king waste of packaging, when the game is essentially a bloody download anyway! They'd be better off just posting out a booklet.
I think its important that these tests of ownership occur, because I for one am becoming a bit miffed at what I'm actually paying for! iTunes seems to make me pay for each song again if I accidentally delete the local content, Steam lets me download as much as I wan't but I can't offload any of the crap I don't want anymore, and Sony manufactures discs that lock themselves to console/player IDs. Its not DRM, its complete friggin Hocus Pocus on 'how to diminish the value of money against art'. I'm not an art collector, personally, but imagine how intensely useless it would be to purchase pictures if they had to become a fixture of the house and it was illegal to sell the wall they were on?
I've done just this in the past and certainly have accelerated some games, however others simply suffer from processor or architecture limitations regardless of the card. For example, AI and texture load-ins, particle systems tend to jam up regardless of the card, as well as anything asking for a lot of random seeding.
I personally like to throw a new $250 card at each system about 2 years into its life, then upgrade the system on the other two years, repeating (providing there isn't a requirement to upgrade the socket). That way I tend to be able to run everything at maximum. Its certainly a lot cheaper than the good ol' days of yearly upgrades.
This situation reminds me of a similar issue I had (and still have) with Blizzard regarding their Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 games. Only two online DRM games I own, only two games I had to pirate AFTER I had paid money in order to be able to bloody play! Its the single reason I will never buy another Blizzard product again in my life. Thanks, Blizzard!
EA may be a completely shit gaming company, but they can't be nearly as incompetent as Blizzard.
I came here to say this. Aren't the real perpetrators the news organisations who have clearly published stories regarding his bankruptcy resulting in poison auto-correct searches?
Maybe he'd be better off paying for some news-worthy publicity for his surgery to alter his results, or contact the papers and have them revise their wording?
As a fellow Australian, I can quite comfortably say that Guy Hingston is a complete f$#king moron if he thinks this is the right way to deal with this.
Yeah, Wireshark would be my go-to as well. You might also look at demonstrating ways she might want to triangulate radio locations (ie, wi-fi) using things like WiSpy, and demonstrating the ways in which all of those hidden earthed wires create invisible wireless shields that for some reason no one in the industry seems to grasp (the old 'you only need two of these radios for your entire school' scenario).
From what your saying, it seems like you are inferring some link between climate change and past events. I like your way of thinkings. You should consider joining climateskepticsanonymous.org. My membership number is 851458. Look me up!
I think the problem is if you forever want to rent DVDs you will never turn a profit... because DVDs are basically inferior to what I can download.
That said, I think there is a tremendous untapped market on game console rentals. Being able to go down and rent a Wii for a weekend is a stellar move, and you move games with every system rental that goes out the door. Glue a GPS to them in case they don't come back.
There is a massive video store down the road from my house. Completely useless building. I can't even rent PC games from them. And why would I ever want to rent a $5 DVD when I can own the damn thing for $19.95? Hell, the last time I used a Blockbuster the assholes tried to stiff me with a $50 fine.
Thats probably a lot more concise than I could have ever expressed it. I once had a girlfriend who accused me of being argumentative. A point that I am sure I tried to argue. I think the single greatest piece of advice for anyone with a superiority complex is to acknowledge that there is no way to win an argument, and if you think you can, then I think you have a problem.
Since that accusation, I think I have literally become a better person, because knowing that you can't win an argument really only leaves you the alternative of working out why people think the way they do. Once you do that, many bazaar points of view seem more reasonable, and has prevented me from making myself look like a total dick on numerous occasions. Also. it gives people an opportunity to talk about themselves, which I find folks REALLY like to do.
Thats what I read from SuricouRaven's post, anyway.
I like Chalnoth, he seems to know whats going on. At the very least, I concur with everything hes said. The 'wall of sound' idea seems like a bit of a wives tail constructed on a way to deal with tinitis, which does involve using brown or pink noise to eliminate 'perceived' noise in the ear-drum. In reality, however, if you try mixing an audio track with noise, the output is an audio-track mixed with noise. You might be able to do something more obscuring if you multiplied the carrier wave (street noise) with the white noise track, but that would require a lot more control over your environment than you appear to presently have. I have personally tried this approach by playing really loud music, but I find after the first 6 hours you have only managed to accomplish two things. 1) pissing off the neighbors, and 2) annoying yourself with your own music playing so loud you can't think about anything else.
Sound waves don't like vacuums and insulation. So, you will need to identify the source of your noise leak - use a sound meter. The description of your house is a little bit rubbish, but if it has wooden walls, your sound is probably haemorrhaging there. I would be looking at something (not specifically) like http://autospeed.com/cms/title_Fitting-Sound-Insulation/A_109796/article.html as its specifically looking at insulation used for shielding against car frequencies. You would need to line the walls with something like this. Roofs are often fairly well insulated, and assuming no audio gets into the room, you shouldn't need to carpet all the walls. Thats more for dealing with internal reflection, although in a worst case it will deaden any echos from audio getting in.
Depending on the size of the room, active audio cancellation is very tricky. It works well for audio cancelling earphones where the system knows where your ears will be in relation to incident noise, however synchronizing destructive audio patterns for an audience in an unknown co-ordinate is nearly impossible.... unless you are lucky enough for all the noise you care about to be coming from a single-point source.
Because I think that is the issue with the Linux Desktop - Acceptability.
From what I can see of my time as an OSX admin (on and off, someone always has one of these bastards hanging off a server rack) as well as with end users, the operating system just goes, is obvious.
(before I commit failure, please note,I'm just going to go with an amalgum of experiences over the *nix collection excluding Darwin/OSX, I've probably made multiple symmantec errors where things have been fixed)
Now, I think Ubuntu gets fairly close, from what I have used (one or two distros) but it suffers the old 'we can also do' problem, which extends from the windowing system down to the windowing applications including the terminal representation with confusing names on top of everything! I know, once you've used everything for a while you get your head around it.
Firstly KDE and GNOME. I'm a new user, why am I even being asked to make this decision already? How do swap it later? Why isn't there just a batch file that does that already, why do I have to edit config files.
Next, whats with this application menu? Why can't anything have a normal bloody name? Notepad, Calculator, stuff I can easily comprehend. Not Kompressor or whatever they call these things. Place program name is brackets or something and make sure the generic name is available as the sortable option. This could even just be done via Windowing aliases that are set up on install and can be turned off. Obviously clients are not going to approach something that goes out of its way to be alien considering every other Windowing methaphor uses these basic office analogies. If the analogies are insufficient, create a better analogy system, but don't waste our time working out what these bloody programs do.
Then after all this you end up with one of the most spartan / ugly desktops available. I would be adding on the two desktop 3D features that let you jelly folders and cube around desktops. Thats neat eye-candy. Eye-candy makes people play. Playing is a key part of acceptability. Its far easier to teach someone to use a computer if they have an interest for games because they will practice without being asked.
And then, you will probably need to diminish this 'jack of all trades' mentality Linux often has. Yes, we know, it can be scaled to anything. Thats why we end up with embedded version (or some minimal linux), eyecandy desktop version, server version.
Oh, and the settings wizards in the gnome 2 were crap in as much as they did allow control and configuration of the Windowing system, but not the computer itself. To do that, you go editing files as Root. Does Linux need a better architecture for script files that allow it to be easily represented in a dynamic dialog?
Finally, I don't like the implementation of the terminal - too much Inception - at least in the last version of GNOME I was running. Terminal boxes are represented as windows, but I think the metaphor is a little mistaken for an OS that prides itself on being all about 'Windows' with a command box shell added on. They almost demand their own management GUI in Linux due to their necessity though. Maybe ALT+~ will cycled your open terminals and ALT+TAB will eventually let you select the consoles group tab which takes you back to last active console with the other sessions grouped to the status of that. There may be some use-cases where this idea is stupid, but as of the last time I used Linux as a desktop/server I swear 80% of the time was in terminal, with another 10% was in GEDIT modifying files opened via the terminal. Makes you wonder why the 'Start' menu on the keyboard doesn't just launch a friggin terminal window.
So, this is how Linux needs to reinvent itself. Automation and more stuff out of the box presented in a generic fashion (fewer crazy names).
Sorry if is seems as though I have a low opinion of Linux, because that is certainly not the case. On the contrary, I have a low opinion of MS Windows from an operational stand point, I just don't think that technologies are as meshed and concise as they should be with Linux.
This kind of reminds me of a camera review I saw recently that mounted 'shock proof' cameras to a motorbike chassis and recorded. The Olympus was so pathetic that it was all double image and microphone squeeling, yet Olympus deny the results. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmJYJhwyl4U
Makes me wonder how many imaging product ads feature faux footage... and on top of that... why you would bother doing it? Surely consumers are going to realize if they bought piece of equipment for a specialized function like 'shock proofing' because you require a high degree of image stabilization and the lies are going to do the company far worse damage than having somewhat lacklustre products.
I love your enthusiasm for 3.5" disks, but no. You are wrong. Well, at least from my perspective. 3.5" disks were crap. They were very high density which meant they failed due to summer fashions and windy weather. The protector mechanism f*%ked up all the time (slidy) with its rubbish spring. Read my post below about how the military kept using 8-inch floppies. I think the data density was the real killer on these disks. I have C64 5.25 inch disks that my 1541 drives are still able to read but almost no 3.5" disks still workable, and I'll tell you right now, the Commodore disks aren't nearly as well taken care of.
Good point. I believe the NeXT system crashed and burned primarily because of its lack of basic IO devices and its reliance on a network that never really materialized. I could be wrong, and feel free to correct me if I am. My understanding was this WAS one of the first completely networked PCs, and suffered due to the prevalence of a dialup world. Lol, Dial-up. Blii blii blii blo blo blo blsssshhhhH!!
I don't know how many people are aware of this, but here is my brief story. As an Australian I had the privilege of boarding a US Battleship when I was younger. An interesting fact I came away with was the fact that they committed (this is in about 1997) everything to those 8 inch floppy. Why? With its incredible 80kb - 1.2MB storage capacity, apparently the 8 inch drive was the most resilient storage medium in the event that the vessel was sunk and records needed to be recovered from the ocean floor. I personally found that fascinating.
Looks like whoever has posted this story hasn't fact checked, but according to TorrentFreak, TPB have already responded - specifically to this article - indicating that PrivitizeVPN is not their project, and is merely the link to one of their advertisers. http://torrentfreak.com/tag/privitizevpn/
But I thought some of Dell's current financial situation hinged on a few issues:
1) ASUS, the group that used to make Dell's notebooks now makes a completing line of notebooks which is not beneficial to Dell's competitive advantage.
2) Dell was in a position where they were able to repackage EMC equipment through a deal that EMC pulled out of a bit under a year ago which has reduced the number of product lines available to Enterprise customers.
Those seemed to be the bigger things weighing against Dell. The rest of this seems to be a be of FUD regarding the future of desktop computing.... which, from where I'm sitting, is looking pretty safe.
Yeah, we know its all a bit "you punched my arm, so I'm gonna punch your arm" which has this affect where it is polarizing government/banks against these hackers, and vice-versa.
But, if you think about it, are there many better methods of recourse? Stand around in the streets and the banks pay cops to beat and arrest people until they disperse. DDOS stunts are now considered malicious attacks under some creative 'damages' clauses, but is it really any different to protesters preventing most of the customers from entering a store? US laws are written by corporations and injected without consultation of the general population of not just their own, but other countries so they can pervert freedom and justice there as well. I mean, to be fair, I think the entire world is frightened right now by the colossal level of stupid emanating from that country, and with the exception of a massive economy collapse, I don't see any reason from them to stop.
So, I guess, for many there is the point of view that if you are caught, you are screwed regardless, so you may as well be as effective as you can. I mean, hell, they extradite you these days for hosting video links on your web page. If that isn't petty, I don't know what is.
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Yep, I agree. You do not steal rights from the defenceless. You can sign a contract at 18, you can't at 8. F&%k anyone who even considers stealing the ideas of children and commercialize them! Laws exist principally to protect children from exploitation. Without that you have no legal system.
Overdosing on gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (gHb) produces much the same effect, although possibly in a more horrific way.... maybe.
I had a RL camera up the road that would go spastic every time my car, or anyone elses, would go near the intersection. I'll tell you, public strobe lights while driving do no make for a safer driving experience. Its almost as harrowing as any time I receive a phone call, which now involves driving while successfully negotiating a bluetooth link, screaming at my 'hands free' unit until it finally picks up once all the audio finishes routing properly, then tilt my head back so the speaker can hear me... but thats another administrative cluster f$#k.
I guess the question is how many false positives do these damn cameras cause. Even if not for the highly defective cameras like the one near here, I constantly find other drivers stuck in the middle of red-light intersections who are ensuring the safety of the intersection, even if they're still clearing the intersection after the lights have cycled. I can imagine these dummy cameras must be really easy to contest in court.
$2000 for just 1 year of a shitty Cello song? Damn, bitch, what u smoking? Maybe she should do something hard, like build a streaming music service with ad-incorporated billing built in to disperse her music on the web. What, is that too hard? You don't hear about the starving artists on Deviant complaining about their lousy turn around. $0.0042 might be low for an entire album play, but its not like these people own the song, they just got to play it once. Thats assuming anyone was even listening to the radio station. Its rare for a work of art to appreciate value so quickly, so why is this artist so hell bent on complaining about her fairly modest income? Why doesn't she just do some public performances like other musicians who want quick, real cash?
I don't think there are a lack of innovators as much as a lack of highly innovative companies who are the only ones with enough money to 'innovate' through the patent system. I'm a Computer Systems Engineer. The year I was awarded my degree, Australia inherited DMCA which stopped tech innovation in this country. We simply do not have enough tech firms with an R&D department well financed enough to legally defend itself for the crime of 'innovation'.
I had almost the same experience two XMAS's ago with my sister when she was bought a Skyrim disc and it automatically registered against my steam account despite riding along with 0 steam logos on the box.
I normally think that Steam offers a lot of value to PC users, my own game collection is quite massive, and even in this instance, while annoying, Steam customer service fixed it up after about a day. That said... what a complete f$#king waste of packaging, when the game is essentially a bloody download anyway! They'd be better off just posting out a booklet.
I think its important that these tests of ownership occur, because I for one am becoming a bit miffed at what I'm actually paying for! iTunes seems to make me pay for each song again if I accidentally delete the local content, Steam lets me download as much as I wan't but I can't offload any of the crap I don't want anymore, and Sony manufactures discs that lock themselves to console/player IDs. Its not DRM, its complete friggin Hocus Pocus on 'how to diminish the value of money against art'. I'm not an art collector, personally, but imagine how intensely useless it would be to purchase pictures if they had to become a fixture of the house and it was illegal to sell the wall they were on?
I've done just this in the past and certainly have accelerated some games, however others simply suffer from processor or architecture limitations regardless of the card. For example, AI and texture load-ins, particle systems tend to jam up regardless of the card, as well as anything asking for a lot of random seeding.
I personally like to throw a new $250 card at each system about 2 years into its life, then upgrade the system on the other two years, repeating (providing there isn't a requirement to upgrade the socket). That way I tend to be able to run everything at maximum. Its certainly a lot cheaper than the good ol' days of yearly upgrades.
... just be careful of the friggin Yeti.
This situation reminds me of a similar issue I had (and still have) with Blizzard regarding their Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 games. Only two online DRM games I own, only two games I had to pirate AFTER I had paid money in order to be able to bloody play! Its the single reason I will never buy another Blizzard product again in my life. Thanks, Blizzard!
EA may be a completely shit gaming company, but they can't be nearly as incompetent as Blizzard.
I came here to say this. Aren't the real perpetrators the news organisations who have clearly published stories regarding his bankruptcy resulting in poison auto-correct searches?
Maybe he'd be better off paying for some news-worthy publicity for his surgery to alter his results, or contact the papers and have them revise their wording?
As a fellow Australian, I can quite comfortably say that Guy Hingston is a complete f$#king moron if he thinks this is the right way to deal with this.
As I see it, there are only three options:
... to be sure.
1. Invoke DMCA against him if he's using any images without permission
2. Start your own counter-smear campaign by setting up your own URL's in his name, and listing that shit at google.
3. Take off, Nuke the site from orbit.
Yeah, Wireshark would be my go-to as well. You might also look at demonstrating ways she might want to triangulate radio locations (ie, wi-fi) using things like WiSpy, and demonstrating the ways in which all of those hidden earthed wires create invisible wireless shields that for some reason no one in the industry seems to grasp (the old 'you only need two of these radios for your entire school' scenario).
From what your saying, it seems like you are inferring some link between climate change and past events. I like your way of thinkings. You should consider joining climateskepticsanonymous.org. My membership number is 851458. Look me up!
I think the problem is if you forever want to rent DVDs you will never turn a profit... because DVDs are basically inferior to what I can download. That said, I think there is a tremendous untapped market on game console rentals. Being able to go down and rent a Wii for a weekend is a stellar move, and you move games with every system rental that goes out the door. Glue a GPS to them in case they don't come back. There is a massive video store down the road from my house. Completely useless building. I can't even rent PC games from them. And why would I ever want to rent a $5 DVD when I can own the damn thing for $19.95? Hell, the last time I used a Blockbuster the assholes tried to stiff me with a $50 fine.
Thats probably a lot more concise than I could have ever expressed it. I once had a girlfriend who accused me of being argumentative. A point that I am sure I tried to argue. I think the single greatest piece of advice for anyone with a superiority complex is to acknowledge that there is no way to win an argument, and if you think you can, then I think you have a problem.
Since that accusation, I think I have literally become a better person, because knowing that you can't win an argument really only leaves you the alternative of working out why people think the way they do. Once you do that, many bazaar points of view seem more reasonable, and has prevented me from making myself look like a total dick on numerous occasions. Also. it gives people an opportunity to talk about themselves, which I find folks REALLY like to do.
Thats what I read from SuricouRaven's post, anyway.
I like Chalnoth, he seems to know whats going on. At the very least, I concur with everything hes said. The 'wall of sound' idea seems like a bit of a wives tail constructed on a way to deal with tinitis, which does involve using brown or pink noise to eliminate 'perceived' noise in the ear-drum. In reality, however, if you try mixing an audio track with noise, the output is an audio-track mixed with noise. You might be able to do something more obscuring if you multiplied the carrier wave (street noise) with the white noise track, but that would require a lot more control over your environment than you appear to presently have. I have personally tried this approach by playing really loud music, but I find after the first 6 hours you have only managed to accomplish two things. 1) pissing off the neighbors, and 2) annoying yourself with your own music playing so loud you can't think about anything else.
Sound waves don't like vacuums and insulation. So, you will need to identify the source of your noise leak - use a sound meter. The description of your house is a little bit rubbish, but if it has wooden walls, your sound is probably haemorrhaging there. I would be looking at something (not specifically) like http://autospeed.com/cms/title_Fitting-Sound-Insulation/A_109796/article.html as its specifically looking at insulation used for shielding against car frequencies. You would need to line the walls with something like this. Roofs are often fairly well insulated, and assuming no audio gets into the room, you shouldn't need to carpet all the walls. Thats more for dealing with internal reflection, although in a worst case it will deaden any echos from audio getting in. Depending on the size of the room, active audio cancellation is very tricky. It works well for audio cancelling earphones where the system knows where your ears will be in relation to incident noise, however synchronizing destructive audio patterns for an audience in an unknown co-ordinate is nearly impossible.... unless you are lucky enough for all the noise you care about to be coming from a single-point source.
Because I think that is the issue with the Linux Desktop - Acceptability.
,I'm just going to go with an amalgum of experiences over the *nix collection excluding Darwin/OSX, I've probably made multiple symmantec errors where things have been fixed)
From what I can see of my time as an OSX admin (on and off, someone always has one of these bastards hanging off a server rack) as well as with end users, the operating system just goes, is obvious.
(before I commit failure, please note
Now, I think Ubuntu gets fairly close, from what I have used (one or two distros) but it suffers the old 'we can also do' problem, which extends from the windowing system down to the windowing applications including the terminal representation with confusing names on top of everything! I know, once you've used everything for a while you get your head around it.
Firstly KDE and GNOME. I'm a new user, why am I even being asked to make this decision already? How do swap it later? Why isn't there just a batch file that does that already, why do I have to edit config files.
Next, whats with this application menu? Why can't anything have a normal bloody name? Notepad, Calculator, stuff I can easily comprehend. Not Kompressor or whatever they call these things. Place program name is brackets or something and make sure the generic name is available as the sortable option. This could even just be done via Windowing aliases that are set up on install and can be turned off. Obviously clients are not going to approach something that goes out of its way to be alien considering every other Windowing methaphor uses these basic office analogies. If the analogies are insufficient, create a better analogy system, but don't waste our time working out what these bloody programs do.
Then after all this you end up with one of the most spartan / ugly desktops available. I would be adding on the two desktop 3D features that let you jelly folders and cube around desktops. Thats neat eye-candy. Eye-candy makes people play. Playing is a key part of acceptability. Its far easier to teach someone to use a computer if they have an interest for games because they will practice without being asked.
And then, you will probably need to diminish this 'jack of all trades' mentality Linux often has. Yes, we know, it can be scaled to anything. Thats why we end up with embedded version (or some minimal linux), eyecandy desktop version, server version.
Oh, and the settings wizards in the gnome 2 were crap in as much as they did allow control and configuration of the Windowing system, but not the computer itself. To do that, you go editing files as Root. Does Linux need a better architecture for script files that allow it to be easily represented in a dynamic dialog?
Finally, I don't like the implementation of the terminal - too much Inception - at least in the last version of GNOME I was running. Terminal boxes are represented as windows, but I think the metaphor is a little mistaken for an OS that prides itself on being all about 'Windows' with a command box shell added on. They almost demand their own management GUI in Linux due to their necessity though. Maybe ALT+~ will cycled your open terminals and ALT+TAB will eventually let you select the consoles group tab which takes you back to last active console with the other sessions grouped to the status of that. There may be some use-cases where this idea is stupid, but as of the last time I used Linux as a desktop/server I swear 80% of the time was in terminal, with another 10% was in GEDIT modifying files opened via the terminal. Makes you wonder why the 'Start' menu on the keyboard doesn't just launch a friggin terminal window.
So, this is how Linux needs to reinvent itself. Automation and more stuff out of the box presented in a generic fashion (fewer crazy names).
Sorry if is seems as though I have a low opinion of Linux, because that is certainly not the case. On the contrary, I have a low opinion of MS Windows from an operational stand point, I just don't think that technologies are as meshed and concise as they should be with Linux.
I look forward to a time when paranoia reaches a point that TSA agents are required to swab each other.
This kind of reminds me of a camera review I saw recently that mounted 'shock proof' cameras to a motorbike chassis and recorded. The Olympus was so pathetic that it was all double image and microphone squeeling, yet Olympus deny the results. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmJYJhwyl4U Makes me wonder how many imaging product ads feature faux footage... and on top of that... why you would bother doing it? Surely consumers are going to realize if they bought piece of equipment for a specialized function like 'shock proofing' because you require a high degree of image stabilization and the lies are going to do the company far worse damage than having somewhat lacklustre products.
I love your enthusiasm for 3.5" disks, but no. You are wrong. Well, at least from my perspective. 3.5" disks were crap. They were very high density which meant they failed due to summer fashions and windy weather. The protector mechanism f*%ked up all the time (slidy) with its rubbish spring. Read my post below about how the military kept using 8-inch floppies. I think the data density was the real killer on these disks. I have C64 5.25 inch disks that my 1541 drives are still able to read but almost no 3.5" disks still workable, and I'll tell you right now, the Commodore disks aren't nearly as well taken care of.
Good point. I believe the NeXT system crashed and burned primarily because of its lack of basic IO devices and its reliance on a network that never really materialized. I could be wrong, and feel free to correct me if I am. My understanding was this WAS one of the first completely networked PCs, and suffered due to the prevalence of a dialup world. Lol, Dial-up. Blii blii blii blo blo blo blsssshhhhH!!
I don't know how many people are aware of this, but here is my brief story. As an Australian I had the privilege of boarding a US Battleship when I was younger. An interesting fact I came away with was the fact that they committed (this is in about 1997) everything to those 8 inch floppy. Why? With its incredible 80kb - 1.2MB storage capacity, apparently the 8 inch drive was the most resilient storage medium in the event that the vessel was sunk and records needed to be recovered from the ocean floor. I personally found that fascinating.
Looks like whoever has posted this story hasn't fact checked, but according to TorrentFreak, TPB have already responded - specifically to this article - indicating that PrivitizeVPN is not their project, and is merely the link to one of their advertisers. http://torrentfreak.com/tag/privitizevpn/
But I thought some of Dell's current financial situation hinged on a few issues:
1) ASUS, the group that used to make Dell's notebooks now makes a completing line of notebooks which is not beneficial to Dell's competitive advantage.
2) Dell was in a position where they were able to repackage EMC equipment through a deal that EMC pulled out of a bit under a year ago which has reduced the number of product lines available to Enterprise customers.
Those seemed to be the bigger things weighing against Dell. The rest of this seems to be a be of FUD regarding the future of desktop computing.... which, from where I'm sitting, is looking pretty safe.
Yeah, we know its all a bit "you punched my arm, so I'm gonna punch your arm" which has this affect where it is polarizing government/banks against these hackers, and vice-versa.
But, if you think about it, are there many better methods of recourse? Stand around in the streets and the banks pay cops to beat and arrest people until they disperse. DDOS stunts are now considered malicious attacks under some creative 'damages' clauses, but is it really any different to protesters preventing most of the customers from entering a store? US laws are written by corporations and injected without consultation of the general population of not just their own, but other countries so they can pervert freedom and justice there as well. I mean, to be fair, I think the entire world is frightened right now by the colossal level of stupid emanating from that country, and with the exception of a massive economy collapse, I don't see any reason from them to stop.
So, I guess, for many there is the point of view that if you are caught, you are screwed regardless, so you may as well be as effective as you can. I mean, hell, they extradite you these days for hosting video links on your web page. If that isn't petty, I don't know what is.