Re:Is anyone else disturbed by this quote?
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cybercrime also includes crackers, Kiddy porn rings, internet fraud, etc.
Perfect, fools working to our benefit
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Now it will be easy to tell what CD's are put out by RIAA members will have a handy marker on them... wait a few months till they put the Logo on all their shit then start a "Do Not Buy" campaign
I know how it works, it gets the album info off amazon and compares it to the RIAA members list, and the whole issue made of one-click purchases... I don't care, Amazon has great shipping speed and *nobody* should have one-click purchases, it makes it too easy to spend too much money. I never read the patent application but They haven't sued anyone over one-click ordering (which is a stupid idea to begin with)
the thing is that Microsoft puts their name on their products and cares what people think when they think of microsoft (average people, not average slashdot readers) but the RIAA exists to do the labels' dirty work and thus by their nature has less incentive to avoid incurring the wrath of the commoners. (not everyone knows about www.riaaradar.comunfortunately)
spammers would pay the fee for every machine infected with a virus? the point isn't to get rid of the spammer accounts, it is to eliminate the problem with spam zombies
I wouls like to propose a new solution for spam, first, all broadband connections will have port 25 outgoing blocked by default (or just straight out blocked) If you want to unblock a port you call a phone number and an automatic prompt will allow either a one-by-one unblocking or an unblock all option, doing so would carry a one-time fee of 5 dollars, once you paid it you could mess with your port block settings as much as you want for free (plus local telephone charges if applicable) I would pay a one-time fee of five dollars (or even $50 if needed to pay for the infrastructure for this) dollars for the "privlidge" of custom port opening while having the benifit of safety for my parents who just want to read email, instant message, and surf the web.
does it also have the dynix property of writing junk on the screen if you hold any terminal key during screen display.... even just delaying release of the return key will do it.... hehe good times back in my highschool days...
I am not abusing anything, i sent them an email canceling the order (the shipment has not come to me yet, the order page had a download section for the main program (not the manuals or the resouce CD) and when i got it the program was ok (not great, but not worth the bother to cancel the $20 order... it was the marketing call where thier own salesman basically said that version 7 was a POS and that I should pay another $30-$50 to upgrade to their newer versions (8 and 9), so today i sent out an email telling them that i wish to cancel the order (I do not expect to have to contest the charge.... small companies don't survive through 9 versions of their software by pissing people off deliberately) and i DO use old software, corel Draw 7, powerpoint 95, and Publisher 97
but then they had the nerve to call me up and basically say "the software we sold you is shit, would you like to pay 3 times as much for better software?"
If you pay with a credit card and the vendor tries to screw you over you can contest the billing and return the unsatisfactory product, In fact I am in the process of cancelling an order i placed for Serif's Photoplus 7 because the site selling it never mentioned that it was old and shitty, but they were perfectly happy to tell me how bad it was when they called me asking if i wanted to pay $50-$90 to upgrade to version 8 or 9... obviously contesting the charge is a last resort but overall I feel much more confident buying software online because i know that i am not out the money untill i actually pay the credit card bill (for internet purchases there is no signature)
except for when a crack gets out and suddenly everyone jacks up their card values... Coins would be better.... besides... i still want to go up to a clerk and pay in gold pieces...
EQ has been going strong for quite a while now... and they must be innovating still (innovation is directly related to buggieness right?) and with hundreds of thousands of people paying their 12.95/month SOE/Verant would be fools to shut it down....(they just added a new server to accomodate new players) the nature of such an environment is such that when it becomes less profitable(less subscribers) it also becomes less fun (less people online) so when it does die it will probably be a gradual death in which servers are shut down and consolodated (they have 50 servers right now) so EQ is a very safe bet seeing as they clearly are making money off it and people still like it enough to play I would definitely not get into FFXI for at least a year or so... right now there is just no way to know that it will survive, especially seeing that the server selection and other aspects (communication) are irritating at best and a deal-breaker at worst (every chat 'channel' you want to be able to join uses an inventory slot and you have to meet someone in-game before you can chat with them... no going and logging in with friends to start new chars (especially since they auto-balance the servers so you don't get to pick your server) a ton of people on my floor bought FFXI and only 2 people are left playing....
honestly i think any programming course should start out using goto for all loops and iterations because it shows much more closely what the CPU actually sees in compiled code, executable does not have "while" loops, "do while" loops, or "for" loops, it runs a series of instrucions, sometimes one of these instructions will cause it to go to another part of the code if a particular condition is met. goto is the only "loop" a processor understands, all other loops are build from that concept.
the blades are adamantine (i think i got the metal right.... sure as hell isn't steel) and blades sharp enough down to an atomic level wouldn't need alot of force.
there is no need to be dissing spawn, spawn is cool, so is m.a.n.t.i.s. ....and if you don't think satan raises people out of hell to stalk the living you have never met me.
Re:I though otherwise, so did my physics teacher.
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Actually a sonic boom is much more damaging to glass than it is to flesh, toss a glass bottle and a piece of steak onto some concrete and see what happens (even better, twist a piece of steak a few degrees and try the same with a piece of plate glass)
When you setup your phone you would program it with your Address (usually automatically the same as your billing address) and it would autosend the info when you dialed 911, hell you could even set up a medical profile so that the 911 responder would know you have (epilepsy|diabetis|heart disease) and are allergic to x honestly a digital 911 system could be much better (include a GPS reciever and it could tell exactly where you are when you call)
every house will have a filter between it and the rest of the lines anyways, otherwise a "noisy" electric motor on your neighbors Old refridgerator would wipe out the signal for miles
Having the source you could do a cleanroom implementation of it, have a set of "dirty" developers read and describe the undocumented API's and another set write those API's from scratch
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cybercrime also includes crackers, Kiddy porn rings, internet fraud, etc.
Now it will be easy to tell what CD's are put out by RIAA members will have a handy marker on them... wait a few months till they put the Logo on all their shit then start a "Do Not Buy" campaign
I know how it works, it gets the album info off amazon and compares it to the RIAA members list, and the whole issue made of one-click purchases... I don't care, Amazon has great shipping speed and *nobody* should have one-click purchases, it makes it too easy to spend too much money. I never read the patent application but They haven't sued anyone over one-click ordering (which is a stupid idea to begin with)
the thing is that Microsoft puts their name on their products and cares what people think when they think of microsoft (average people, not average slashdot readers) but the RIAA exists to do the labels' dirty work and thus by their nature has less incentive to avoid incurring the wrath of the commoners. (not everyone knows about www.riaaradar.comunfortunately)
spammers would pay the fee for every machine infected with a virus? the point isn't to get rid of the spammer accounts, it is to eliminate the problem with spam zombies
I wouls like to propose a new solution for spam, first, all broadband connections will have port 25 outgoing blocked by default (or just straight out blocked) If you want to unblock a port you call a phone number and an automatic prompt will allow either a one-by-one unblocking or an unblock all option, doing so would carry a one-time fee of 5 dollars, once you paid it you could mess with your port block settings as much as you want for free (plus local telephone charges if applicable) I would pay a one-time fee of five dollars (or even $50 if needed to pay for the infrastructure for this) dollars for the "privlidge" of custom port opening while having the benifit of safety for my parents who just want to read email, instant message, and surf the web.
not if you set a filter to auto-rejet anything with adv: in the subject line
does it also have the dynix property of writing junk on the screen if you hold any terminal key during screen display.... even just delaying release of the return key will do it.... hehe good times back in my highschool days...
actually yahoo news crapps out all the time... Fark knocks off articles all the time
I hope you have a good spam filter ;p
I am not abusing anything, i sent them an email canceling the order (the shipment has not come to me yet, the order page had a download section for the main program (not the manuals or the resouce CD) and when i got it the program was ok (not great, but not worth the bother to cancel the $20 order... it was the marketing call where thier own salesman basically said that version 7 was a POS and that I should pay another $30-$50 to upgrade to their newer versions (8 and 9), so today i sent out an email telling them that i wish to cancel the order (I do not expect to have to contest the charge.... small companies don't survive through 9 versions of their software by pissing people off deliberately) and i DO use old software, corel Draw 7, powerpoint 95, and Publisher 97
but then they had the nerve to call me up and basically say "the software we sold you is shit, would you like to pay 3 times as much for better software?"
If you pay with a credit card and the vendor tries to screw you over you can contest the billing and return the unsatisfactory product, In fact I am in the process of cancelling an order i placed for Serif's Photoplus 7 because the site selling it never mentioned that it was old and shitty, but they were perfectly happy to tell me how bad it was when they called me asking if i wanted to pay $50-$90 to upgrade to version 8 or 9... obviously contesting the charge is a last resort but overall I feel much more confident buying software online because i know that i am not out the money untill i actually pay the credit card bill (for internet purchases there is no signature)
except for when a crack gets out and suddenly everyone jacks up their card values... Coins would be better.... besides... i still want to go up to a clerk and pay in gold pieces...
EQ has been going strong for quite a while now... and they must be innovating still (innovation is directly related to buggieness right?) and with hundreds of thousands of people paying their 12.95/month SOE/Verant would be fools to shut it down....(they just added a new server to accomodate new players) the nature of such an environment is such that when it becomes less profitable(less subscribers) it also becomes less fun (less people online) so when it does die it will probably be a gradual death in which servers are shut down and consolodated (they have 50 servers right now) so EQ is a very safe bet seeing as they clearly are making money off it and people still like it enough to play I would definitely not get into FFXI for at least a year or so... right now there is just no way to know that it will survive, especially seeing that the server selection and other aspects (communication) are irritating at best and a deal-breaker at worst (every chat 'channel' you want to be able to join uses an inventory slot and you have to meet someone in-game before you can chat with them... no going and logging in with friends to start new chars (especially since they auto-balance the servers so you don't get to pick your server) a ton of people on my floor bought FFXI and only 2 people are left playing....
honestly i think any programming course should start out using goto for all loops and iterations because it shows much more closely what the CPU actually sees in compiled code, executable does not have "while" loops, "do while" loops, or "for" loops, it runs a series of instrucions, sometimes one of these instructions will cause it to go to another part of the code if a particular condition is met. goto is the only "loop" a processor understands, all other loops are build from that concept.
the blades are adamantine (i think i got the metal right.... sure as hell isn't steel) and blades sharp enough down to an atomic level wouldn't need alot of force.
there is no need to be dissing spawn, spawn is cool,
....and if you don't think satan raises people out of hell to stalk the living you have never met me.
so is m.a.n.t.i.s.
Actually a sonic boom is much more damaging to glass than it is to flesh, toss a glass bottle and a piece of steak onto some concrete and see what happens (even better, twist a piece of steak a few degrees and try the same with a piece of plate glass)
actually i think a well swung hammer has more power behind it than a normal sized bullet, it's just the way the power is applied.
I have to call Bullshit, Copyright covers distribution of information, not duplication
If it was a funeral of one of my family members there would have been three more funerals
When you setup your phone you would program it with your Address (usually automatically the same as your billing address) and it would autosend the info when you dialed 911, hell you could even set up a medical profile so that the 911 responder would know you have (epilepsy|diabetis|heart disease) and are allergic to x honestly a digital 911 system could be much better (include a GPS reciever and it could tell exactly where you are when you call)
every house will have a filter between it and the rest of the lines anyways, otherwise a "noisy" electric motor on your neighbors Old refridgerator would wipe out the signal for miles
Having the source you could do a cleanroom implementation of it, have a set of "dirty" developers read and describe the undocumented API's and another set write those API's from scratch