I work in a chemistry lab. We use dry ice/acetone and dry ice/isopropanol baths all the time. Dry ice is dirt cheap too. The best way to do this whole thing would probably be to run the isopropanol through an insulated container full of dry ice in a way similar to a regular liquid-cooling system.
Duh, the RIAA took all their royalties. How are they going to pay the lawyer, especially when the RIAA can just hire another few lawyers with the money they stole?
Well, I obviously enjoy doing it, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it, because there's certainly no other incentive other than that to do it. But, with no financial incentive to do it, you're not going to see most people being interested. It wasn't about why I don't do it (I do), but why Americans in general don't do science or math. - Because you'll make more money running a walmart than curing cancer.
I'll vouch for his story. I'm in phd school for chemistry, and I frequently wonder why the hell I bother. I should have just gotten an MBA. In the US, doing science or math is basically a lot of hard work that doesn't pay off.
Whenever I give money to charity, I always do it anonymously, just so I won't end up on some sucker list to get phone calls from every damn charity in the world wanting a handout.
There are several ads in the states that have Australian (sounding?) accents, Expedia.com and Subaru come to mind. Do they redub them in Australia to have American accents?
It turns out that this is where Marx was wrong. Communism won't be brought about by a revolution of the proletariat, it'll happen when the entire society grinds to a complete halt as advertising saturation reaches 100%.
Same for me. My only problem seems to have come about when everyone switched from the old white-on-black displays to having everything be black-on-white. Staring into a sea of bright white pixels to read black text seems to give me a headache after a while. I try to set stuff to display as white on black, but it causes a lot of other problems with "poorly designed" webpages, etc.
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yeah, according to the DMCA, it is almost criminal.
Reverse engineering. Maybe not, but I'm sure they could claim it as "intent to reverse engineer."
I think the difference that he is referring to is that patents are being granted on the idea with no implementation. It would be like if someone patented the idea of having power-assisted steering, which is obvious. The implementation of the drive system is not, and that should be patentable. Not simply the concept.
Not to worry. printing $100 bills will get the secret service involved, and distilling whisky will get the ATF involved. They'll be too tied up in bureaucratic infighting to do anything to you.
ChoicePoint did not "lose" the data. These corporate whore-mongers sold the information to whoever had the money to buy it, without checking whether
they were bona fide businesses.
So what if they were legitimate businesses or not? Why should I trust any given business over any idiot on the street? I'd actually trust the businesses less.
After reading all this nonsense about having to send inspectors to everyone's home to peek in the windows and check their TV's, I wonder how much revenue is generated by the tax versus the cost of sending all these inspectors around!
When someone's computer gets fucked up, just set a firewall on their IP so they can only access a list of websites, and block their email so they can't receive any executable attachments. That'll teach them.
There's no reason for most people to need access to the whole internet at work, other than work would really suck if I actually had to work instead of sitting around and reading Slashdot.
The problem is that Microsoft still hasn't gotten around to making the system usable without running it as Adminstrator. Even if it does get to the point where there is spyware, it can't do nearly as much if it can't read/write anywhere to the drive that it wants.
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I work in a chemistry lab. We use dry ice/acetone and dry ice/isopropanol baths all the time. Dry ice is dirt cheap too. The best way to do this whole thing would probably be to run the isopropanol through an insulated container full of dry ice in a way similar to a regular liquid-cooling system.
I'm seriously considering picking up *something* to occupy my attention on the flights I'm going to start taking over the next couple of months
There's this fascinating device, you have have heard of it. It's called a "book", and it's rather cheaper than a PSP.
Even cheaper than a book, get a couple hits of acid and a window seat...
Duh, the RIAA took all their royalties. How are they going to pay the lawyer, especially when the RIAA can just hire another few lawyers with the money they stole?
Do we gain a better system by assuming the laws are always wrong?
No, but we most certainly DO gain a better system by assuming the laws are not always right.
Not to mention that by the time Longhorn comes out, I'll probably already have solid-state holographic storage on my Powerbook. :)
Well, I obviously enjoy doing it, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it, because there's certainly no other incentive other than that to do it. But, with no financial incentive to do it, you're not going to see most people being interested. It wasn't about why I don't do it (I do), but why Americans in general don't do science or math. - Because you'll make more money running a walmart than curing cancer.
I'll vouch for his story. I'm in phd school for chemistry, and I frequently wonder why the hell I bother. I should have just gotten an MBA. In the US, doing science or math is basically a lot of hard work that doesn't pay off.
Whenever I give money to charity, I always do it anonymously, just so I won't end up on some sucker list to get phone calls from every damn charity in the world wanting a handout.
I know everyone here is going to disagree with me, but I like group-think.
They're definitely a threat. The more old stuff you take out of circulation, the more new crap people have to buy.
There are several ads in the states that have Australian (sounding?) accents, Expedia.com and Subaru come to mind. Do they redub them in Australia to have American accents?
.. but then why wasn't it re-dubbed into British English for the UK? Or Indian English for India?
Are you serious? I simply MUST see the Indian English version of Mad Max. Is it as hilarious as I imagine it is?
It turns out that this is where Marx was wrong. Communism won't be brought about by a revolution of the proletariat, it'll happen when the entire society grinds to a complete halt as advertising saturation reaches 100%.
Same for me. My only problem seems to have come about when everyone switched from the old white-on-black displays to having everything be black-on-white. Staring into a sea of bright white pixels to read black text seems to give me a headache after a while. I try to set stuff to display as white on black, but it causes a lot of other problems with "poorly designed" webpages, etc.
yeah, according to the DMCA, it is almost criminal.
Reverse engineering. Maybe not, but I'm sure they could claim it as "intent to reverse engineer."
I think the difference that he is referring to is that patents are being granted on the idea with no implementation. It would be like if someone patented the idea of having power-assisted steering, which is obvious. The implementation of the drive system is not, and that should be patentable. Not simply the concept.
I think you got that backwards. Aside from a few recent high-profile cases, the entire point of a corporation is to shield individuals from liability.
Not to worry. printing $100 bills will get the secret service involved, and distilling whisky will get the ATF involved. They'll be too tied up in bureaucratic infighting to do anything to you.
I believe the industry standard is TeX.
ChoicePoint did not "lose" the data. These corporate
whore-mongers sold the information to whoever
had the money to buy it, without checking whether
they were bona fide businesses.
So what if they were legitimate businesses or not? Why should I trust any given business over any idiot on the street? I'd actually trust the businesses less.
After reading all this nonsense about having to send inspectors to everyone's home to peek in the windows and check their TV's, I wonder how much revenue is generated by the tax versus the cost of sending all these inspectors around!
But, if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide!
A friend of mine once said about this - "Orwell was a bitter man, but he never thought we'd actually BUY the fucking telescreens"
When someone's computer gets fucked up, just set a firewall on their IP so they can only access a list of websites, and block their email so they can't receive any executable attachments. That'll teach them.
There's no reason for most people to need access to the whole internet at work, other than work would really suck if I actually had to work instead of sitting around and reading Slashdot.
The problem is that Microsoft still hasn't gotten around to making the system usable without running it as Adminstrator. Even if it does get to the point where there is spyware, it can't do nearly as much if it can't read/write anywhere to the drive that it wants.