The guy that deals with buying equipment called Dell up wanting some machines like what he'd bought his kids.
For his kids, Dell charged 300gbp per box.
For the school, they wanted around 30% more!
Dell's excuse was really laughable. Something about "For schools, the computers can be further upgraded before purchasing so it gives you the option of upgrading at the point of sale.". They could be upgraded for home use too, so that didn't really wash.
..got turned off pretty sharpish at one point. I remember fiddling with BASIC (it was a C64), and one of the parameters I passed to LOAD gave an 'Illegal argument' message or something. I'd seen War Games before this happened, and with me doing something 'illegal', I imagined it wouldn't be long until the police would come a knocking. The computer remained powered off for a few days after... The police never did show up.
They're basing the punishment on the (theoritical) cost of the crime. They mentioned the value of the pirated stuff at $50mil. That's quite a lot of money..
The people that make the busts love to do this to make it look like they're doing a worthwhile job.
I remember a drugs bust in the paper a while ago, something like 9 kilo's of cannabis found, which they valued at some ridiculously high price. When I used to smoke it (in not very large amounts), I worked out I could've gotten it at less than half the price the newspaper valued it at.
I think when they said 'street value', they must've meant the drugs plus all the houses in the near vacinity.
So, m-w is the be-all and end-all of definition? C'mon... you think a DRUGSTORE (US term) sells mainly illegal chemicals? No - A drug is a chemical compound, legal or otherwise.
I'm sure it was obvious I was referring to illegal drugs from the context.
"Get off your high horse..." - same could be said for your comment, don't you think?
The fundamental difference being that drug using and selling between adults is clearly an act of voluntary consent -- there is no aggressor, and there is no victim -- while child porn is clearly an act of aggression, because a child is too young to make such a decision.
Selling drugs to minors should be interpreted as an act of aggression, however, for the same reason child porn is interpreted as an act of aggression. The minor is simply too young to make adult decisions.
Agreed, but I was making the comparison because neither are likely to stop because a government says don't do them.
With drugs/illegal drugs/narcotics or whatever you want to call them, the person taking them is consenting. A child cannot consent to being abused. I'm fully aware of this.
"Please, use the word 'narcotics'. I'm so sick of people moronically using the work 'drugs' to mean the same thing. They are not. The vast majority of 'drugs' are useful tools helping people to live their lives and recover from ill health. Thank you."
Please, kiss my arse. I won't use another word when the one I used is perfectly adequate.
From m-w.com, "drug: something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation, or a marked change in consciousness"
Get off your high horse. Stop thinking the rest of the world should join in with whatever little rules you've set yourself to follow in the use of language. Thank-you.
What a breath of fresh air reading what Australia will do.
Trying to plug the hole that is child Internet porn would be an ongoing battle swallowing much time and resource better spent elsewhere. Sure the majority don't want to see it and have no interest in it spreading, but trying to stop it is like trying to stop the use of drugs. If people want it, they'll get it. I'd rather my tax dollars went into dealing with it at the source.
It also means the Government won't be submerged in requests of other anti- groups to stop whatever else they decide doesn't take their fancy.
Who do you think? Governments don't have money, they only have yours or will borrow on your behalf. If they see a way of skimming that little extra from your pay cheque, they'll do it. And they'll ask you to pay for it too.
What about shared cars?
What about them? The registered keeper will get the bill and it'll be up to them to go through the hassle of working out who owes them what.
Does travel outside the state count?
Eventually.
How about the tourists?
What about them? If their cars don't have the units now, they'll get away with it. Eventually they will have though, and then they'll pay.
In the mean time, that extra money they're bringing your local economy will have to cover it.
Rental cars?
When you drop the car off you'll pay based on how many miles you did.
Don't bet on it. This has been suggested over in the UK too, and while not a popular suggestion, it's something that WILL happen here and where you are. If not tomorrow, then at some point in the future.
That privacy you think you have is quietly being eroded, and as the majority of your country has shown recently, you just don't care.
If the only purpose of these devices was to tax you based on how many miles you drive, wouldn't a milometer do? Sure the old mechanical ones can be fiddled, but aren't manufacturers capable of creating one that can't be? If they aren't, how are they capable of creating a GPS unit that can't be modded to make it look like the car has never moved from the driveway?
The powers that be won't be happy until they know exactly where you are all the time. To introduce it, they'll tell you how it'll benefit you tax-wise first. If that doesn't work, they'll tell you it'll help fight terrorism. ("Hey, if we had GPS units in cars we'd have been able to track the terrorists to within a square yard!"). The point that terrorists would probably use a stolen/rental car, bus or taxi will be skated over.
It won't be for a few years yet (there's no infrastructure to bill people even if the units were fitted), but it won't be long. If you get away with paying a tax based on how far you drive, your kids won't.
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street, If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat, If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat, If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet. Taxman. 'Cos I'm the Taxman, Yeah, I'm the Taxman.
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So, I find myself doing lots of manual work to fix the meta information, add valid "year" data, add track and disc number data, check off "compilation" for those, fix genres and spelling, etc. Most of the time, if it looks like the song has crap ID3 tags, I don't even bother downloading it, it's not worth the extra work
To many people (the majority I'd guess), fixing up metadata and adding years and album names to songs wouldn't be worth the extra work;-)
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If this guy was real and as rich as he's made out to be, why wouldn't he have just bought an Xserve with an Xserve RAID?
Why?
What use is a dual 64-bit CPU server whooshing along at x Mhz with umpteen amounts of RAM?
All the guy is doing is archiving songs, the bulk of which will never be heard anyway. The cheapest 250GB drives would suffice easily. When they're cheap enough, these can be upgraded to TB drives as he goes.
Even Google don't use RAID, it's just not worth the cash. And to this guy, it'd be useless IMHO. It's not like he's serving all this data out to anyone to warrant the cost of a high-end server.
So Deepz0ne has his name 9 times on every machine running XP. 72 bytes per machine, he must be taking up a several gigabytes across the globe, very impressive.
I don't think there are many names buried in Windows now since Microsoft banned easter eggs. Bar Wes Cherry who appears to have his name in every release with Solitaire.
"So the question is, "Do we go to Linux or do we go to Windows?" That's where more of the comparison comes from. When I talk to customers and they say, "Hey, we can get better TCO with Linux," they're not always saying better than Windows. They're saying better than Unix"
Bullshit. The companies I've moved over to Linux are SME's dying to get out of the lock Microsoft have on them with things like Windows Server, CAL's and then the client OS's. There's a lot of money in small business, and a lot of companies who've never heard of Unix who're ready to save a buck or two running Linux/Samba etc.
There's probably a registry key to fix it. It'll not take them long to find HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Cri pple and change the key 'LimitApps' to something other than 3.
I've decided I won't buy another CD or movie again until I'm billed for it by my ISP. I've absolutely no objection to paying for stuff, I think an extra 30 quid a month or so on top of my ADSL bill would be fine. So long as I can legally download any piece of media I like. I should also be able to play it wherever I like on whatever device I fancy. The record/movie companies should all get together and scrap over how they'll share that out.
I've completely given up on traditional distribution methods after the glue failed on the last DVD I bought and the shop said it was because I mistreated it.
Sorry chaps, go shove your CD's & DVD's, until then you won't see another penny from me. I already own every piece of music I listen to anyway, there's sure nothing in the charts I'd condider buying.
Yup, this DidTheyReadIt looks like a load of rubbish.
For those users on dialup that'll be 'compatible' with it (e.g., those who's MUA's are set to download images automatically etc.), they'll be kinda alerted to this covert tracking thing when their machines try to dial out whenever a certain email is read.
And I can't see it doing any tracking to the folks working in our office (and most offices) when SQUID stamps out all those HTTP requests.
> Much as I hate to say it, I don't think that the > computer industry would be as far along as it is > today without games.
By computer industry, do you mean PC's, or everything including the games consoles etc? If the latter, then don't bother reading on...
> Games have driven the market and the platform > of choice has been the PC. Why? Because it was > there.
I'm not sure I agree with that. The sale of PC's is driven by business, not gamers. The majority of people I know play games on their PlayStations or Nintendo's, without a PC in sight. The majority of home users I know don't have paid for copies of Windows, so I don't think it's been the home user playing his games that's driven the market.
I'd think it's making more money that's driven the market. Businesses buy systems to increase productivity, turnaround and sales.
Or that's my view of the world anyway, perhaps it's just the people I know:-)
Who's to say you won't once your palm print controls everything?
Now car security is better, thieves don't bother with all that window breaking, hot-wiring nonsense. Now they'll just clobber you over the head with a bar.
There's such a thing as too much security. Who's to say a bank robber wouldn't think twice about removing someone's hand to access the $50 grand in their account? Personally, I'd rather use a key/card over biometrics any day.
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..and found this out recently.
The guy that deals with buying equipment called Dell up wanting some machines like what he'd bought his kids.
For his kids, Dell charged 300gbp per box.
For the school, they wanted around 30% more!
Dell's excuse was really laughable. Something about "For schools, the computers can be further upgraded before purchasing so it gives you the option of upgrading at the point of sale.". They could be upgraded for home use too, so that didn't really wash.
Would you attitude remain the same if one of your kids was beaten to a pulp by a vigilante who'd made a mistake?
..got turned off pretty sharpish at one point. I remember fiddling with BASIC (it was a C64), and one of the parameters I passed to LOAD gave an 'Illegal argument' message or something. I'd seen War Games before this happened, and with me doing something 'illegal', I imagined it wouldn't be long until the police would come a knocking. The computer remained powered off for a few days after... The police never did show up.
I remember a drugs bust in the paper a while ago, something like 9 kilo's of cannabis found, which they valued at some ridiculously high price. When I used to smoke it (in not very large amounts), I worked out I could've gotten it at less than half the price the newspaper valued it at.
I think when they said 'street value', they must've meant the drugs plus all the houses in the near vacinity.
With drugs/illegal drugs/narcotics or whatever you want to call them, the person taking them is consenting. A child cannot consent to being abused. I'm fully aware of this.
From m-w.com, "drug: something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation, or a marked change in consciousness"
Get off your high horse. Stop thinking the rest of the world should join in with whatever little rules you've set yourself to follow in the use of language. Thank-you.
What a breath of fresh air reading what Australia will do.
Trying to plug the hole that is child Internet porn would be an ongoing battle swallowing much time and resource better spent elsewhere. Sure the majority don't want to see it and have no interest in it spreading, but trying to stop it is like trying to stop the use of drugs. If people want it, they'll get it. I'd rather my tax dollars went into dealing with it at the source.
It also means the Government won't be submerged in requests of other anti- groups to stop whatever else they decide doesn't take their fancy.
Possibly, but once they're back in circulation and have passed through a few tills (cash registers in the US ;), cash is about as anonymous as it gets.
What will we do when all cash transactions are tracked with RFID?
In the mean time, that extra money they're bringing your local economy will have to cover it. When you drop the car off you'll pay based on how many miles you did.
Hope this has answered your questions
Don't bet on it. This has been suggested over in the UK too, and while not a popular suggestion, it's something that WILL happen here and where you are. If not tomorrow, then at some point in the future.
That privacy you think you have is quietly being eroded, and as the majority of your country has shown recently, you just don't care.
If the only purpose of these devices was to tax you based on how many miles you drive, wouldn't a milometer do? Sure the old mechanical ones can be fiddled, but aren't manufacturers capable of creating one that can't be? If they aren't, how are they capable of creating a GPS unit that can't be modded to make it look like the car has never moved from the driveway?
The powers that be won't be happy until they know exactly where you are all the time. To introduce it, they'll tell you how it'll benefit you tax-wise first. If that doesn't work, they'll tell you it'll help fight terrorism. ("Hey, if we had GPS units in cars we'd have been able to track the terrorists to within a square yard!"). The point that terrorists would probably use a stolen/rental car, bus or taxi will be skated over.
It won't be for a few years yet (there's no infrastructure to bill people even if the units were fitted), but it won't be long. If you get away with paying a tax based on how far you drive, your kids won't.
Didn't the Beatles predict all this anyway?
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat,
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Taxman.
'Cos I'm the Taxman,
Yeah, I'm the Taxman.
So Deepz0ne has his name 9 times on every machine running XP. 72 bytes per machine, he must be taking up a several gigabytes across the globe, very impressive. I don't think there are many names buried in Windows now since Microsoft banned easter eggs. Bar Wes Cherry who appears to have his name in every release with Solitaire.
Bullshit. The companies I've moved over to Linux are SME's dying to get out of the lock Microsoft have on them with things like Windows Server, CAL's and then the client OS's. There's a lot of money in small business, and a lot of companies who've never heard of Unix who're ready to save a buck or two running Linux/Samba etc.
Heheh, don't you love these die hards that are still out there using Netscape 1.x? All 4 of them! What great guys!
There's probably a registry key to fix it. It'll not take them long to find HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Cri pple and change the key 'LimitApps' to something other than 3.
I've decided I won't buy another CD or movie again until I'm billed for it by my ISP. I've absolutely no objection to paying for stuff, I think an extra 30 quid a month or so on top of my ADSL bill would be fine. So long as I can legally download any piece of media I like. I should also be able to play it wherever I like on whatever device I fancy. The record/movie companies should all get together and scrap over how they'll share that out.
I've completely given up on traditional distribution methods after the glue failed on the last DVD I bought and the shop said it was because I mistreated it.
Sorry chaps, go shove your CD's & DVD's, until then you won't see another penny from me. I already own every piece of music I listen to anyway, there's sure nothing in the charts I'd condider buying.
Yup, this DidTheyReadIt looks like a load of rubbish.
For those users on dialup that'll be 'compatible' with it (e.g., those who's MUA's are set to download images automatically etc.), they'll be kinda alerted to this covert tracking thing when their machines try to dial out whenever a certain email is read.
And I can't see it doing any tracking to the folks working in our office (and most offices) when SQUID stamps out all those HTTP requests.
> Much as I hate to say it, I don't think that the
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> computer industry would be as far along as it is
> today without games.
By computer industry, do you mean PC's, or everything including the games consoles etc? If the latter, then don't bother reading on...
> Games have driven the market and the platform
> of choice has been the PC. Why? Because it was
> there.
I'm not sure I agree with that. The sale of PC's is driven by business, not gamers. The majority of people I know play games on their PlayStations or Nintendo's, without a PC in sight. The majority of home users I know don't have paid for copies of Windows, so I don't think it's been the home user playing his games that's driven the market.
I'd think it's making more money that's driven the market. Businesses buy systems to increase productivity, turnaround and sales.
Or that's my view of the world anyway, perhaps it's just the people I know
#kill everybody
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for a in range(0,255):.......
Phew, as my IP begins 217., I should be safe from this beastie as soon as a reaches 127 and your own box resets
You haven't lost your hand yet.
Who's to say you won't once your palm print controls everything?
Now car security is better, thieves don't bother with all that window breaking, hot-wiring nonsense. Now they'll just clobber you over the head with a bar.
There's such a thing as too much security. Who's to say a bank robber wouldn't think twice about removing someone's hand to access the $50 grand in their account? Personally, I'd rather use a key/card over biometrics any day.