If I leave my front door open and someone wanders in, are they trespassing? I say yes as I did not give them explicit permission to enter my house.
Now, if I run a file-sharing program that "opens" the door to my computer, what gives the RIAA (or anyone else) the right to go through that door and examine the contents of my shared folders without my permission? Isn't this "unauthorized access" illegal?
Why not use the laws lobbied by big corporations to protect themselves from their own incompetence (i.e. not securing there systems) that made unauthorized access a crime to punish those corporations who choose to use the court system to bully citizens.
My stepfather, a immigrant from Holland, told me recently about his misadventures as a youth (here in the US). He was definely a wild one. He and his friends used to climb trees and throw eggs at passing cars.
Can you imagine if he had done this today? He would probably be on the next plane back to Holland.
Its sad when there is so much crime that goes unsolved because a$$hole meglomanic cops spend their time booking kinds for climbing trees. I am tempeted to wish thier parents hire a good lawyer and stick it to them, but its OUR tax money after all.
At the very least the parent should have the right to force the police to destroy the DNA samples. If not someday Jonny might be passed out at a college party when a crime occurs. The police collect DNA and run it in the database and up pops Jonny's name. A the least it will be hassle for him. At the worst, he might celebrate his next birthday at Leavonworth.
Other young men have mugged old gannies and gotten away with it, so it must be ok for young men to mug grannies. I hope that in the years since Wilson, hell even Nixon, that we had learned from our mistakes.
I think 8-Ball from Full Metal Jacket sums up how the Iraqis feel about now quite well:
Personally, I think, uh... they don't really want to be involved in this war. I mean... they
sort of took away our freedom and gave it to the, to the gookers^H^H^HIraqis, you know. But they don't want it. They'd rather be alive than free, I guess. Poor dumb bastards.
What really irks me is that many people are hostage to a phone company. In some area I'm sure AT&T is the only land line company around. If cell coverage is bad, you are pretty much stuck with AT&T unless you want to go without a phone (like thats even an option in today's world).
Thank God, I live is urban SoCal with plenty of choices. I feel for Ma and Pa Kettle in rual areas where AT&T is the only game in town.
Just kidding, hes a great actor and I was a big fan TOS in my childhood.
As people mentioned, TOS was revolutionary in the 60's. It featured the first inter-racial (black/white) kiss seen on TV.
Where else can you find a planet-eating space monster that looks like a roach (half smoked marijuana cigarette). I imagine the writers sitting around the table passing a doobie when they came up wuth that one;).
The popular children's books "Where's Waldo?" will be reimagined for Arab consumers.
The new series, "Where's Osma?" challenges Arab children to locate the terrorist in busy drawings of the Afgan Mountains, Syria, and New York.
We have a running joke at work that the makers of our ERP system QA their code my putting a bunch of monkeys in a room. The monkeys throw fesces at a target at then they manage to hit the target, the code is released.
I imagine that advances like this will allow them to QA the new code much faster.
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Careful where you go with clusters of clusters. Your bound to disappear in a puff of logic if you keep it up.
If I leave my front door open and someone wanders in, are they trespassing? I say yes as I did not give them explicit permission to enter my house.
Now, if I run a file-sharing program that "opens" the door to my computer, what gives the RIAA (or anyone else) the right to go through that door and examine the contents of my shared folders without my permission? Isn't this "unauthorized access" illegal?
Why not use the laws lobbied by big corporations to protect themselves from their own incompetence (i.e. not securing there systems) that made unauthorized access a crime to punish those corporations who choose to use the court system to bully citizens.
-- TMK
Someone writes a utility to auto-click all the annoying boxes. With Vista you work harder, instead of smarter.
I don't plan on upgrading until they force me to.
Wait, I play WoW and I have sex all the time! Oh, you mean sex with physical contact with another person... hmmm, never tried that.
I would be careful if I were you. Those Scientology guys have powerful forces at their disposal.
HAHA! No, not The Hand of GOD, I'm talking lawyers. Expect the RIAA to declare itself a religion soon and condemn all file-sharers to fiery hell.
In a cold robotic voice: "License expired." "Parking protocol suspended." "Destruction protocol engaged." "Must... kill.. all.. humans."
Women will always embrace any technology that allows them to nag better, faster, and/or cheaper.
Most people say dates like "August second two thousand six". Since the m/d/y format mimics this, it may be the reason why the format is so popular.
Being a programmer, I perfer ISO dates (yyyy-mm-dd) because as they sort correctly as string values.
My stepfather, a immigrant from Holland, told me recently about his misadventures as a youth (here in the US). He was definely a wild one. He and his friends used to climb trees and throw eggs at passing cars.
Can you imagine if he had done this today? He would probably be on the next plane back to Holland.
Its sad when there is so much crime that goes unsolved because a$$hole meglomanic cops spend their time booking kinds for climbing trees. I am tempeted to wish thier parents hire a good lawyer and stick it to them, but its OUR tax money after all.
At the very least the parent should have the right to force the police to destroy the DNA samples. If not someday Jonny might be passed out at a college party when a crime occurs. The police collect DNA and run it in the database and up pops Jonny's name. A the least it will be hassle for him. At the worst, he might celebrate his next birthday at Leavonworth.
-- TMK
Other young men have mugged old gannies and gotten away with it, so it must be ok for young men to mug grannies. I hope that in the years since Wilson, hell even Nixon, that we had learned from our mistakes.
I think 8-Ball from Full Metal Jacket sums up how the Iraqis feel about now quite well:
Have we not learned anything?What really irks me is that many people are hostage to a phone company. In some area I'm sure AT&T is the only land line company around. If cell coverage is bad, you are pretty much stuck with AT&T unless you want to go without a phone (like thats even an option in today's world). Thank God, I live is urban SoCal with plenty of choices. I feel for Ma and Pa Kettle in rual areas where AT&T is the only game in town.
Whether it works, or not. I'm sure these guys will make their investor's money disappear.
The Sims "aka Virtual Torture Set" teach kids about social issues? WTF, are we short on Abugarade sytle interragators or what?
Thank you, come again!
I hear they sent a rocket to the sun once ...
Is -220C around the Grave Digger's Bum range, or does it go all the way to Witch's Teat?
Just kidding, hes a great actor and I was a big fan TOS in my childhood.
As people mentioned, TOS was revolutionary in the 60's. It featured the first inter-racial (black/white) kiss seen on TV.
Where else can you find a planet-eating space monster that looks like a roach (half smoked marijuana cigarette). I imagine the writers sitting around the table passing a doobie when they came up wuth that one ;).
In this house, we obey the laws of thermaldynamics!
Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.
In the US, we have a powerful group of people who buy and sell legislation on a daily basis. We call them Lobbyists.
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
The popular children's books "Where's Waldo?" will be reimagined for Arab consumers. The new series, "Where's Osma?" challenges Arab children to locate the terrorist in busy drawings of the Afgan Mountains, Syria, and New York.
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
We have a running joke at work that the makers of our ERP system QA their code my putting a bunch of monkeys in a room. The monkeys throw fesces at a target at then they manage to hit the target, the code is released.
I imagine that advances like this will allow them to QA the new code much faster.
-- TMK
I, for one, welcome our new robotic octipus overlords.
Everyone thought The Martrix was just a silly sci-fi movie. Fools, its actually a documentary from the future! -- TMK
Microsoft has been doing it for years with their Windows is more secure than (Li | U)nix studies. -- TMK
I perfer to use intimidation:
"Touch my code and I will beat you with silly with a rolled copy of the original spec docs."
Seems to work for me.
-- TMK