So as long as I don't install any software on my machine or do anything that changes the registry I'll be OK? I think the next computer I buy I'll just leave in the box. That way I'm sure not to have problems like this.
IBM still does this. Their zSeries processors have dozens of degrade levels. (I don't think that's what the marketing people call them.) This is actually a good thing for the customer as well as IBM. It's very easy to upgrade your processing capacity, which often can be done while the systems are running. It's much better than taking a multi-hour outage while an engineer mucks around with the cards and cables in your million-dollar machine.
I am just sick of hearing about WMD's, when we all thought they were there.
Plenty of people, outside of the government and the mainstream media at least, were skeptical about the WMD claims, if only on the principle that if Bush thought it was true it had to be false.
Isn't the key to avoiding DMCA nonsense to create your own content...then don't you have the same right to protect and decrypt your own content as Company S does? Who says only S**y is allowed to create discs with intentionally corrupt sectors; and therefore only S**y can say who can write programs that ignore such sectors?
Sony's lawyers and Sony's money and Sony's congressmen, that's who. If you don't have at least the first two of those, it doesn't matter how right you are.
None of these clowns ever manages to explain how they obtain rights that they haven't purchased and that no one has given them.
Hi, this is Bozo speaking for the United Federation of Clowns. I talked to the other clowns, the ones at the MPAA and RIAA, and they told me how to obtain rights by purchasing them from Congress. Unfortunately I am a few hundred million dollars short. What do you suggest I do?
increasingly more difficult to create convincing digital forgeries
It only has to convince a jury. What are 12 random citizens more likely to believe, a complicated mathematical formula or a photograph they can see with their own eyes?
But isn't peer pressure a good motivator? Now, speeding will not only get you more redlights (making it, in fact, take longer to get anywhere the faster you go), but you also run the risk of being the jackass that stopped all traffic.
Actually, peer pressure is almost nonexistent when you're driving. Driving is anonymous, which is a large reason there are so many jackasses. People behave on the road in ways they never would in face-to-face interaction. I find that I drive much more politely if I imagine that other cars are driven by friends or coworkers.
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So we've got a spider with 8 arms, a bag of sophisticated tools, and a good source of mutagenic cosmic radiation. I don't like the look of this.
If you believe that you're the stupidest person in the history of the universe.
I am unfamiliar with this concept. Please explain.
Forget to take your meds again, Darl?
What will be interesting is how the oil giants respond to this competition.
DMCA takedown notices?So as long as I don't install any software on my machine or do anything that changes the registry I'll be OK? I think the next computer I buy I'll just leave in the box. That way I'm sure not to have problems like this.
IBM still does this. Their zSeries processors have dozens of degrade levels. (I don't think that's what the marketing people call them.) This is actually a good thing for the customer as well as IBM. It's very easy to upgrade your processing capacity, which often can be done while the systems are running. It's much better than taking a multi-hour outage while an engineer mucks around with the cards and cables in your million-dollar machine.
What implications does this have for the "my dog ate my homework" excuse?
Plenty of people, outside of the government and the mainstream media at least, were skeptical about the WMD claims, if only on the principle that if Bush thought it was true it had to be false.
A dinosaur with yard-long growths over its eyes--isn't that Andy Rooney?
Not really. As I understand it, most of what is labelled IBM was stolen from SCO.
For an extra challenge, you could use George W. Bush's English. All those 2- and 3-letter words would come in handy.
So? I'm sure everyone here is in compliance already.
What does the Air Force use when it fights in cyberspace, Flight Simulator?
Amazon is just lucky that Serdar Argic isn't around anymore.
If you're in international waters, then obviously you're a pirate. You'll be dealt with by hanging from the yardarm or walking the plank or something.
Actually, peer pressure is almost nonexistent when you're driving. Driving is anonymous, which is a large reason there are so many jackasses. People behave on the road in ways they never would in face-to-face interaction. I find that I drive much more politely if I imagine that other cars are driven by friends or coworkers.
If you'd RTFA, you would have noticed that the device is patent-pending.