In order for it to be libel three things have to be demonstrated :
1.The statements were false.
2.The author of the statements was negligent in their research of said facts or, in the case of a public figure, the statements were made with actual malice.
3.The subject of the libelous statements suffered actual damage. Hurt feelings do not constitute actual damage. Loosing your job constitutes damage. Loosing customers constitutes damage. A damaged reputation that is *demonstrable* could be considered actual damage. Suffering extreme emotional distress *could* be, under certain circumstances, be considered actual damage.
I don't see any actual damages here unless it has been omitted from an article. All I see is a bunch of snooping teachers looking on their students facebooks and not liking the fact that people said mean things about them. This is not sufficient cause for a libel suit.
The war on drugs is nothing more than a war on the American people by a bunch of holier-than-thou moral imperialists. It has squandered trillions of dollars in taxpayer money and claimed tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives over the years. It doesn't stop drug use and merely floods our prisons with people whose only "crime" is simple possession. Prohibition didn't work for alcohol and it certainly isn't working for drugs.
It's nice to know that when corporate interests are threatened, the US Government is more than willing to come to the rescue and do their bidding.
Of course, when Goldman Sachs lies, cheats, and defrauds the American people, the US government looks the other way.
The last time I checked, Isohunt was based in Canada as was Garry Fung. And last time I checked, Canada was (not yet) part of the US. Just another arrogant American judge who thinks that the entire world should be subject to US rule and law.
This is why no one is going to seriously use the HTML5 video tag. What advantage does HTML5 offer over Flash for web designers when you have to worry about supporting multiple codecs because no one can agree on a standard codec to use. On the other hand, if you use Flash, pretty much everyone (except those subject to Steve Jobs' Dictatorship) can view your video and you don't have to worry about supporting multiple codecs. So now you have to worry about
The HTML 5 tag is a poor standard; a typical result of a standard by committee. The whole point of the web is to be able to display the content on any platform. Allowing people to use proprietary patent-encumbered codecs as part of the official standard goes against that whole concept. The tag is something I would expect to see from Microsoft, not the W3C.
MAC Addresses operate at the data-link layer (OSI Layer 2).
The data-link layer deals solely with intranetwork communication (communication between computers in a single network).
The IP Address deals with the computer on a logical/software level. The MAC Address deals with the computer on a more physical level.
Anytime you send a data unit from one computer to another on the same network, the MAC Address is what it used to determine where that data unit should go and/or which computer that data unit is intended for.
If Computer A wants to send a packet to Computer B on a different network, it has to go through a router. This is where IP Addresses really come into play. A MAC Address doesn't contain any information that identifies a particular network, it's just an address so you can't take a MAC Address and use it to determine what network that computer is on.
In order to forward the packet from Computer A on Network A to Computer B on Network B, the destination MAC address on the frame of data intended for Computer B is changed to the MAC Address of the Router's Interface on Network A. The Router then recreates and sends this dataunit on Network B with a source MAC address of the router's Network B interface and a destination Mac address of Computer B.
Because of this, it's impossible to get someone's MAC Address over the internet simply by using a packet sniffer. The MAC Addresses are changed everytime the dataunit passes through another router so the MAC Address you'd see on a frame you received over the internet would be the MAC Address of the last hop and not the originating computer.
Caveat emptor. People need to take responsibility for their own actions. While it is questionable to make a device that is obviously a knockoff of the Wiimote, it is also wrong to place the blame 100% on Walmart or the manufacturer of the item for a situation in which the buyer did not properly research their purchase. Anyone who has done their research will be able to discern it from the real thing in seconds. The LCD screen should be a dead give away. The fact that it's not advertised or labeled as a Wii controller should be another.
And I'm curious as to why the packaging is not shown in any of the photographs. Could it be because the packaging clearly indicates that this is a handheld game and not a Wii controller? Perhaps next time, people should try reading the packaging instead of blindly purchasing something because it "looks" like the right thing.
Also, please drop the bantering about how the evil company is exploiting poverty. They (the company) are targeting people who can't be bothered to read the packaging or do research before they make a purchase, not poor people.
Looks like the Mac fanbois are abusing the moderating system again.
And the terminology is semantics. Mac users have been exclaiming that there Macs are immune or resistant to malware for years now and saying that Macs are better than Windows because Macs don't get infected.
Mac users seriously need to shut up about Macs "just working". I'm seriously tired of Mac users interjecting their opinions about how great Macs supposedly are at every possible opportunity. For a computer that "just works", Macs seem to have plenty of problems. In fact, was there not a Slashdot article just a few days ago about a blue screen of death when "upgrading" to the newest version of Mac OS X? I've also read about file permissions becoming corrupted with the upgrade.
The stability of Mac OS X does not come from the fact that it is on a controlled set of hardware but the fact that it is based on a proven stable platform (BSD). Back before Mac OS X, Macs also had controlled hardware but the operating system was more unstable than even Windows 9x. Despite the fact that there was "controlled hardware", even simply running out of memory required a reboot. FreeBSD is just as stable, if not more stable, than Mac OS X and it runs on a wide variety of hardware.
OS X has the potential to pose serious competition to Windows, but Apple won't let it. Apple insists on tethering to their overpriced PCs. In fact, if Apple relied solely on the sales of their Macs, they would be out of business. The only thing that has kept Apple is business is the IPod and ITunes. Why would anyone want to buy a $2000 computer that comes with only 1 gigabyte of RAM and a Geforce 7300? Especially since you can get a regular PC for that price that is at least 50 times more powerful. Mac users generally chime in that this is the "price" of quality and that Macs are a work of art. I don't buy computers to decorate the house, I buy computers to use them, as tools to accomplish tasks. And the quality of Macs is dubious, especially after it was exposed how much thermal paste Apple was using in their MacBooks (and the subsequent legal actions by Apple to sweep it under the carpet).
Valve has violated the Uniform Commercial Code as well as numerous state and federal laws. No amount of legalese or EULAs will allow a company to willingly violate the laws and scam consumers in this manner.
My advice to any victims of this scam is to do a chargeback on their credit card and to file a complaint with their local Attorney General's Office as well as the Federal Trade Commission.
Looks like Google Ads are now getting blocked as well. I've never really understood marketers or the logic behind annoying and intrusive ads. Common sense would dictate that pissing people off is not very likely to sell products and in fact may do the exact opposite.
Intel CPUs have to have a lot of L2 cache to make up for the fact that they are still using a decades old shared bus architecture, where the memory controller is on the northbridge and memory transfers have to go through the FSB.
AMD's overall motherboard architecture, having a direct line from each core to RAM separate from the FSB and having that on-die memory controller, is lightyears ahead. The fact that the Athlon 64 CPUs, the architecture of which has remained relatively unchanged for the last 4 years, is still competitive at all with Intel's latest, is testament to that.
I beta tested World of Warcraft and subscribed for a period of time after that.
The game has great art and creative direction but the programmers seem to have forgotten how to program proper code. It seems that for every 1 bug that Blizzard fixes, 10 new ones are introduced.
I understand that this is their first MMORPG, but the game has been out in North America for almost 10 months now, they have had time to iron out these bugs.
This is another example of Blizzard's complete lack of quality assurance; and I doubt that their PR response is going to be better. Let's hope they don't pull an SOE by banning everyone that has come into contact with duped items, regardless of if they were the ones that duped it.
BSDs are available for the x86 platform as well, so Linux isn't the only UNIX-style operating system available. However Linux has the spotlight on it more than the BSDs do.
I'm not interesting in hearing the MPAA and RIAA's Mantra about what's ethical and what's not?
1.Is it ethical to deprive independant artists of a tool to share their work?
2.Is it ethical to DDoS File Sharing Networks?
3.Is it ethical to sue a 12 year old girl who lives in the projects?
4.Is it ethical to sue for $20,000 per song even though each song itself is only worth about a dollar? (And probably more per movie)
5.Is it ethical to pollute file sharing networks with bogus files and viri?
Last time I checked the Linux Kernel was open-source. So why does IBM have to turn over open-source code to SCO? Are they really that lazy that they can't get it off the internet?
Ok I'll admit that Battlefield was a good series.
Sims 2 however was not. Sure it had better graphics but they purposly left out features so they could fill them in with expansion packs.
Not to mention EA's SafeDisc feature now refuses to run the game if you happen to have CloneCD installed. I'm sorry but I'll run what I want to on my computer.
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In order for it to be libel three things have to be demonstrated : 1.The statements were false. 2.The author of the statements was negligent in their research of said facts or, in the case of a public figure, the statements were made with actual malice. 3.The subject of the libelous statements suffered actual damage. Hurt feelings do not constitute actual damage. Loosing your job constitutes damage. Loosing customers constitutes damage. A damaged reputation that is *demonstrable* could be considered actual damage. Suffering extreme emotional distress *could* be, under certain circumstances, be considered actual damage. I don't see any actual damages here unless it has been omitted from an article. All I see is a bunch of snooping teachers looking on their students facebooks and not liking the fact that people said mean things about them. This is not sufficient cause for a libel suit.
The war on drugs is nothing more than a war on the American people by a bunch of holier-than-thou moral imperialists. It has squandered trillions of dollars in taxpayer money and claimed tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives over the years. It doesn't stop drug use and merely floods our prisons with people whose only "crime" is simple possession. Prohibition didn't work for alcohol and it certainly isn't working for drugs.
It's nice to know that when corporate interests are threatened, the US Government is more than willing to come to the rescue and do their bidding. Of course, when Goldman Sachs lies, cheats, and defrauds the American people, the US government looks the other way.
How much of that 1 billion dollars a year in R&D costs goes towards finding new and creative ways to stifle third-party ink vendors?
The last time I checked, Isohunt was based in Canada as was Garry Fung. And last time I checked, Canada was (not yet) part of the US. Just another arrogant American judge who thinks that the entire world should be subject to US rule and law.
This is why no one is going to seriously use the HTML5 video tag. What advantage does HTML5 offer over Flash for web designers when you have to worry about supporting multiple codecs because no one can agree on a standard codec to use. On the other hand, if you use Flash, pretty much everyone (except those subject to Steve Jobs' Dictatorship) can view your video and you don't have to worry about supporting multiple codecs. So now you have to worry about The HTML 5 tag is a poor standard; a typical result of a standard by committee. The whole point of the web is to be able to display the content on any platform. Allowing people to use proprietary patent-encumbered codecs as part of the official standard goes against that whole concept. The tag is something I would expect to see from Microsoft, not the W3C.
MAC Addresses operate at the data-link layer (OSI Layer 2). The data-link layer deals solely with intranetwork communication (communication between computers in a single network). The IP Address deals with the computer on a logical/software level. The MAC Address deals with the computer on a more physical level. Anytime you send a data unit from one computer to another on the same network, the MAC Address is what it used to determine where that data unit should go and/or which computer that data unit is intended for. If Computer A wants to send a packet to Computer B on a different network, it has to go through a router. This is where IP Addresses really come into play. A MAC Address doesn't contain any information that identifies a particular network, it's just an address so you can't take a MAC Address and use it to determine what network that computer is on. In order to forward the packet from Computer A on Network A to Computer B on Network B, the destination MAC address on the frame of data intended for Computer B is changed to the MAC Address of the Router's Interface on Network A. The Router then recreates and sends this dataunit on Network B with a source MAC address of the router's Network B interface and a destination Mac address of Computer B. Because of this, it's impossible to get someone's MAC Address over the internet simply by using a packet sniffer. The MAC Addresses are changed everytime the dataunit passes through another router so the MAC Address you'd see on a frame you received over the internet would be the MAC Address of the last hop and not the originating computer.
I'll give it about a week before Apple starts litigating.
Nothing an EMP generator can't take care of. If these things start appearing in the US, I might just build one.
Caveat emptor. People need to take responsibility for their own actions. While it is questionable to make a device that is obviously a knockoff of the Wiimote, it is also wrong to place the blame 100% on Walmart or the manufacturer of the item for a situation in which the buyer did not properly research their purchase. Anyone who has done their research will be able to discern it from the real thing in seconds. The LCD screen should be a dead give away. The fact that it's not advertised or labeled as a Wii controller should be another. And I'm curious as to why the packaging is not shown in any of the photographs. Could it be because the packaging clearly indicates that this is a handheld game and not a Wii controller? Perhaps next time, people should try reading the packaging instead of blindly purchasing something because it "looks" like the right thing. Also, please drop the bantering about how the evil company is exploiting poverty. They (the company) are targeting people who can't be bothered to read the packaging or do research before they make a purchase, not poor people.
Looks like the Mac fanbois are abusing the moderating system again. And the terminology is semantics. Mac users have been exclaiming that there Macs are immune or resistant to malware for years now and saying that Macs are better than Windows because Macs don't get infected.
I thought Macs didn't get viruses or worms and that they "just worked".
Mac users seriously need to shut up about Macs "just working". I'm seriously tired of Mac users interjecting their opinions about how great Macs supposedly are at every possible opportunity. For a computer that "just works", Macs seem to have plenty of problems. In fact, was there not a Slashdot article just a few days ago about a blue screen of death when "upgrading" to the newest version of Mac OS X? I've also read about file permissions becoming corrupted with the upgrade. The stability of Mac OS X does not come from the fact that it is on a controlled set of hardware but the fact that it is based on a proven stable platform (BSD). Back before Mac OS X, Macs also had controlled hardware but the operating system was more unstable than even Windows 9x. Despite the fact that there was "controlled hardware", even simply running out of memory required a reboot. FreeBSD is just as stable, if not more stable, than Mac OS X and it runs on a wide variety of hardware. OS X has the potential to pose serious competition to Windows, but Apple won't let it. Apple insists on tethering to their overpriced PCs. In fact, if Apple relied solely on the sales of their Macs, they would be out of business. The only thing that has kept Apple is business is the IPod and ITunes. Why would anyone want to buy a $2000 computer that comes with only 1 gigabyte of RAM and a Geforce 7300? Especially since you can get a regular PC for that price that is at least 50 times more powerful. Mac users generally chime in that this is the "price" of quality and that Macs are a work of art. I don't buy computers to decorate the house, I buy computers to use them, as tools to accomplish tasks. And the quality of Macs is dubious, especially after it was exposed how much thermal paste Apple was using in their MacBooks (and the subsequent legal actions by Apple to sweep it under the carpet).
Valve has violated the Uniform Commercial Code as well as numerous state and federal laws. No amount of legalese or EULAs will allow a company to willingly violate the laws and scam consumers in this manner. My advice to any victims of this scam is to do a chargeback on their credit card and to file a complaint with their local Attorney General's Office as well as the Federal Trade Commission.
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Oops, looks like I accidentally pasted some stuff from my browser window and my backspace key isn't working.
Looks like Google Ads are now getting blocked as well. I've never really understood marketers or the logic behind annoying and intrusive ads. Common sense would dictate that pissing people off is not very likely to sell products and in fact may do the exact opposite.
Intel CPUs have to have a lot of L2 cache to make up for the fact that they are still using a decades old shared bus architecture, where the memory controller is on the northbridge and memory transfers have to go through the FSB. AMD's overall motherboard architecture, having a direct line from each core to RAM separate from the FSB and having that on-die memory controller, is lightyears ahead. The fact that the Athlon 64 CPUs, the architecture of which has remained relatively unchanged for the last 4 years, is still competitive at all with Intel's latest, is testament to that.
Don't flame the Microsoft employees, it's not nice :P
I beta tested World of Warcraft and subscribed for a period of time after that. The game has great art and creative direction but the programmers seem to have forgotten how to program proper code. It seems that for every 1 bug that Blizzard fixes, 10 new ones are introduced. I understand that this is their first MMORPG, but the game has been out in North America for almost 10 months now, they have had time to iron out these bugs. This is another example of Blizzard's complete lack of quality assurance; and I doubt that their PR response is going to be better. Let's hope they don't pull an SOE by banning everyone that has come into contact with duped items, regardless of if they were the ones that duped it.
KDE runs fine for me, with all eye-candy turned on, though I run it on a 64-bit system.
BSDs are available for the x86 platform as well, so Linux isn't the only UNIX-style operating system available. However Linux has the spotlight on it more than the BSDs do.
I'm not interesting in hearing the MPAA and RIAA's Mantra about what's ethical and what's not? 1.Is it ethical to deprive independant artists of a tool to share their work? 2.Is it ethical to DDoS File Sharing Networks? 3.Is it ethical to sue a 12 year old girl who lives in the projects? 4.Is it ethical to sue for $20,000 per song even though each song itself is only worth about a dollar? (And probably more per movie) 5.Is it ethical to pollute file sharing networks with bogus files and viri?
Does the Microsoft Outlook Subscription come with complimentary e-mail viri?
Last time I checked the Linux Kernel was open-source. So why does IBM have to turn over open-source code to SCO? Are they really that lazy that they can't get it off the internet?
Ok I'll admit that Battlefield was a good series. Sims 2 however was not. Sure it had better graphics but they purposly left out features so they could fill them in with expansion packs. Not to mention EA's SafeDisc feature now refuses to run the game if you happen to have CloneCD installed. I'm sorry but I'll run what I want to on my computer.