Obviously someone beat me to the punch (the submit button punching that is). Anyway, I wonder if this could be an acceptable new trend, to ship scientists up that are not professional astronauts to conduct research (since, sadly, no one person, not even an astronaut, can be a top-noch scientinst in everything). As a non-astronaut scientist, my head is saying "hell yes!".
The full quote I want to address is this: A fuel cell generates electricity when hydrogen from fuel such as hydrogen and methanol combines with oxygen leaving pure water as a by-product.
Excuse me, but if you're using methanol there's a Carbon atom that has to go somewhere, usually goes as CO or CO2. Although there's some struggle about CO2 being a pollutant, the fact is that you don't only produce water.
More destructive worms = less apathetic/ignorant users out there
I'm not going to bother replying to your "it's the victim's fault" tripe, but I'll just point out that the problem with this particular worm is that it's destroying computers from users that are NOT apathetic, it's targeted at people who have bothered to get a firewall up and running, using a exploit that was detected just a day before the spread.
Of course, you'd know that if you had bothered to RTFA. Wishful thinking, I know...
That's far too high a price (for the sarcasm impaired: the parent was being sarcastic); the price I pay is playing only with friends and not with everyone, which is fine with me.
Well, the underlying principle is genetic compatibility, the fertile offspring is pretty much a "rule of thumb". Although you are right there are certain species that have been defined so without being really different by a standard definition.
Buy a pair of cheap soundcards (the ADC and DAC quality don't matter in the least). Tap the digital input off card #1's DAC, and send it to the output of card #2's ADC
You really thing the "trusted" driver will let the card play a digital output from the "trusted DVD"? Analog hole is all there is.
Actually, any local band that plays live is where I'll be, I'll be reading instead of listening to music when idling at home.
Then contact the developer of the game for the cd-key removal tool. Oh wait....It really is that simple though
Sure is. 10 logged calls to tech support with UT2003, I could have cracked it right away but wanted to make a point (since the number was free, I've seen others that give a 0.80/min tech support number, heh). The tech support came down to this "it seems like you have all your cables plugged in correctly, there's nothing we can do to help". One of them suggested I should wait for a patch.
The point is that 99.9% of P2P is pirated content that the downloaders don't have the right to access. The producers should have a right to fight back by poisoning P2P apps [or at least their own apps on P2P].
The point is that the producers (or the "vigilantes" in this case) don't have the right to attack P2P users, much less under the assumption that everyone uses everything for illegal purposes. That's what the law is for, not their own "justice system". And that 99.9% really looks like something you pulled out of thin air.
Um no it isn't. You don't download keygens and full copies of programs off P2P to "tune up" your software. You do that to pirate it, to violate the rights of the producer and to be a little prick.
Woah, way to go Mr. Assumptions. Why exactly can't I just rip out the CD protection code off the program I paid for? It's far more convenient for me to just install the whole thing in my 120 Gb hard drive, stash the box with the CDs safely and be on my merry way. I don't have to throw a tantrum, call the software company 100 times and make a revolution to change the system so that programs come without CD protection. I can simply spend 5 minutes downloading a tool and getting rid of it. Or I can put the keygen with the game in the hard drive so that I don't even have to worry where the manual or the box will end up.
What you're presenting here is a fallacy known as the False Dichotomy. The world is not "either you get the crack to pirate the program or you return it if you don't like the CD protection". After I paid for that software I'll modify it as I see fit to make it more convenient for me to use it, be it cracking the CD protection, installing 100 zillion mods or even cheating the crap out of it so that I can headshot the bots every time I want to. And I'll be damned if I let anyone tell me what I can or cannot do in my computer with the software I paid for.
That's like saying "my car's v8 is a little out of tune so I'll just steal another off the lot". Um no, you raise the issue with the person who sold you the defective product.
No, it's like saying "my V8 is out of tune so I'll buy some tools and alter it myself".
Can't afford winxp? Get a linux distro. Can't afford Office? Get OpenOffice. Can't afford video games? Get a job. blah blah blah...
Can't get your copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 to recognize your CD-ROM drive because of the reterded CD-Protection crapware it has?
...
If your answer to that is "get a new drive" or "get a new computer" I say screw it, I'll crack my legally purchased copy of the game, like I did with UT2003.
Which sucks, it's still in pre-order, why did the americans get it before us europeans?:-(
Can someone please explain to me how one is so wrong yet the other is so right?
It's quite simple, with P2P sharing networks person A is passively letting their computer open so that any person B that comes and asks can grab a file if they like what they see.
A spammer, on the other hand, will make everything possible to get past the locks I put in my computer to try and give me a file I didn't ask for in the first place.
Well, bear with me, my strong point is biochemistry:D
But if that's the case, how does it work for those satellites that are considered to be "captured" by planets, like Neptune's Nereid? Does that involve the collision of two or more objects or something like that?
That good fellow is going to pass quite close to earth. Now, the question I have is, how close does an asteroid such as this have to pass so that it is captured by Earth's gravitational field and become a satellite?
It could be useful to have a big rock in stable orbit.
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Who, extending the webcams, is willing to put every single thought they have
Considering the average 24/7 webcam crap we see, chances are the full thoughts of those individuals shouldn't amount to more than a couple of kilobytes anyway.
Let's see if I can explain myself a bit better. See, the thing is that the market wanted more secure and stable software, but MS just ignored that (features FEATURES!!). Linux came along and changed that, but the same effect could have happened if someone else had decided to go for that same market, be it IBM with a new OS, someone taking over a new BSD variant, you name it.
Granted, as the AC said, the fact that Linux is gratis and free probably helped too (as well as the fact that the primary goal for the creators was not necessarily profit). But with MS ignoring the market like that it was just creating the opportunity.
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Obviously someone beat me to the punch (the submit button punching that is). Anyway, I wonder if this could be an acceptable new trend, to ship scientists up that are not professional astronauts to conduct research (since, sadly, no one person, not even an astronaut, can be a top-noch scientinst in everything). As a non-astronaut scientist, my head is saying "hell yes!".
The full quote I want to address is this: A fuel cell generates electricity when hydrogen from fuel such as hydrogen and methanol combines with oxygen leaving pure water as a by-product.
Excuse me, but if you're using methanol there's a Carbon atom that has to go somewhere, usually goes as CO or CO2. Although there's some struggle about CO2 being a pollutant, the fact is that you don't only produce water.
Have you tried your friendly neighbourhood landfill?
More destructive worms = less apathetic/ignorant users out there
I'm not going to bother replying to your "it's the victim's fault" tripe, but I'll just point out that the problem with this particular worm is that it's destroying computers from users that are NOT apathetic, it's targeted at people who have bothered to get a firewall up and running, using a exploit that was detected just a day before the spread.
Of course, you'd know that if you had bothered to RTFA. Wishful thinking, I know...
That's far too high a price (for the sarcasm impaired: the parent was being sarcastic); the price I pay is playing only with friends and not with everyone, which is fine with me.
You insensitive clod!
Well, the underlying principle is genetic compatibility, the fertile offspring is pretty much a "rule of thumb". Although you are right there are certain species that have been defined so without being really different by a standard definition.
You mean tentacles, right?
Buy a pair of cheap soundcards (the ADC and DAC quality don't matter in the least). Tap the digital input off card #1's DAC, and send it to the output of card #2's ADC
You really thing the "trusted" driver will let the card play a digital output from the "trusted DVD"? Analog hole is all there is.
Actually, any local band that plays live is where I'll be, I'll be reading instead of listening to music when idling at home.
Then contact the developer of the game for the cd-key removal tool. Oh wait....It really is that simple though
Sure is. 10 logged calls to tech support with UT2003, I could have cracked it right away but wanted to make a point (since the number was free, I've seen others that give a 0.80/min tech support number, heh). The tech support came down to this "it seems like you have all your cables plugged in correctly, there's nothing we can do to help". One of them suggested I should wait for a patch.
The point is that 99.9% of P2P is pirated content that the downloaders don't have the right to access. The producers should have a right to fight back by poisoning P2P apps [or at least their own apps on P2P].
The point is that the producers (or the "vigilantes" in this case) don't have the right to attack P2P users, much less under the assumption that everyone uses everything for illegal purposes. That's what the law is for, not their own "justice system". And that 99.9% really looks like something you pulled out of thin air.
Um no it isn't. You don't download keygens and full copies of programs off P2P to "tune up" your software. You do that to pirate it, to violate the rights of the producer and to be a little prick.
Woah, way to go Mr. Assumptions. Why exactly can't I just rip out the CD protection code off the program I paid for? It's far more convenient for me to just install the whole thing in my 120 Gb hard drive, stash the box with the CDs safely and be on my merry way. I don't have to throw a tantrum, call the software company 100 times and make a revolution to change the system so that programs come without CD protection. I can simply spend 5 minutes downloading a tool and getting rid of it. Or I can put the keygen with the game in the hard drive so that I don't even have to worry where the manual or the box will end up.
What you're presenting here is a fallacy known as the False Dichotomy. The world is not "either you get the crack to pirate the program or you return it if you don't like the CD protection". After I paid for that software I'll modify it as I see fit to make it more convenient for me to use it, be it cracking the CD protection, installing 100 zillion mods or even cheating the crap out of it so that I can headshot the bots every time I want to. And I'll be damned if I let anyone tell me what I can or cannot do in my computer with the software I paid for.
That's like saying "my car's v8 is a little out of tune so I'll just steal another off the lot". Um no, you raise the issue with the person who sold you the defective product.
No, it's like saying "my V8 is out of tune so I'll buy some tools and alter it myself".
Can't afford winxp? Get a linux distro. Can't afford Office? Get OpenOffice. Can't afford video games? Get a job. blah blah blah...
...
:-(
Can't get your copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 to recognize your CD-ROM drive because of the reterded CD-Protection crapware it has?
If your answer to that is "get a new drive" or "get a new computer" I say screw it, I'll crack my legally purchased copy of the game, like I did with UT2003.
Which sucks, it's still in pre-order, why did the americans get it before us europeans?
Can someone please explain to me how one is so wrong yet the other is so right?
It's quite simple, with P2P sharing networks person A is passively letting their computer open so that any person B that comes and asks can grab a file if they like what they see.
A spammer, on the other hand, will make everything possible to get past the locks I put in my computer to try and give me a file I didn't ask for in the first place.
Noone makes a comment about Beagle 2 and then you two post at exactly the same time a comment about it.
If this, together with the picture of the martian UFO is not some sort of divine sign I don't know what it is.
*Scratch head*
:D
Well, bear with me, my strong point is biochemistry
But if that's the case, how does it work for those satellites that are considered to be "captured" by planets, like Neptune's Nereid? Does that involve the collision of two or more objects or something like that?
That good fellow is going to pass quite close to earth. Now, the question I have is, how close does an asteroid such as this have to pass so that it is captured by Earth's gravitational field and become a satellite? It could be useful to have a big rock in stable orbit.
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By free you mean as in beer or as in libre?
Because for the looks of it, it's free as in "make it yourself".
Who, extending the webcams, is willing to put every single thought they have
Considering the average 24/7 webcam crap we see, chances are the full thoughts of those individuals shouldn't amount to more than a couple of kilobytes anyway.
Welcome to nethack! You're a chaotic male human Slashdot Poster.
You take a step in the ominous dungeon...
You die. Do you want your possesions identified? [y/n]
the marketing droids go and change the names. Don't they have anything better to do?
No, nothing that I can think of.
Hmmm, I just tried it with my home DSL (that's what ssh is for :D) and I'm getting 18000 - 22000 ms...
I think I'm going to run it for a bit to see if it's a problem with my connection and if it'll get better after the morning rush.
It preemptively surrenders even before it's attacked.
You know, I though that was the SCO version (or to be more precise, the sco.com version). Is Darl of french origin by any chance?
Let's see if I can explain myself a bit better. See, the thing is that the market wanted more secure and stable software, but MS just ignored that (features FEATURES!!). Linux came along and changed that, but the same effect could have happened if someone else had decided to go for that same market, be it IBM with a new OS, someone taking over a new BSD variant, you name it.
Granted, as the AC said, the fact that Linux is gratis and free probably helped too (as well as the fact that the primary goal for the creators was not necessarily profit). But with MS ignoring the market like that it was just creating the opportunity.