I recently bought the 40Gb MP3 player from iRiver. To me, looks of an electronic device doesn't really matter. I just want the features. Simple as that.
Lack of interest in aesthetics is why there will be, under no circumstances, sex for you at the end of the evening.
There is plenty of reason to still use hymn. The iTMS terms of service give Apple the right to change the rules as to how you can use the music you have purchased, at any time, for any reason, and you have no recourse. How safe would you feel if Apple stopped being just a flack for the record companies and was bought by a record company? That record company could decide that you ought to start paying a subscription fee in order to continue to access your music... and according the terms of service you agreed to, they can do it.
I hope Lite-On's products are rock-solid because it couldn't be more obvious from the stilted langauge on the web site that a conversation with customer service is going to be a frustrating experience.
Ah, I see. Along with bankruptcy protection, and tax breaks for businesses that lose money, we also have to pay for their failed products, even if we had the good sense not to buy those products explicitly when they were on sale. Gee, thanks. I feel much better about pirating stuff now. If when I make legitimate purchases I'm paying for stuff I didn't get then it's only fair that I get some stuff for which I didn't pay. P2P. Power to the people.
Two possibilities: it's a joke or it's a scam. Why? No one would be stupid enough to tip off other fortune hunters if they'd found Atlantis. There must be tons of gold and other valuable artifacts. If Atlantis has been found the area would be swarming with ships and divers which the finder of Atlantis would not want unless... it's a scam to drum up business for all the boat and scuba rental outfits for tens of miles around. It'll be like the placer gold rushes in North America. The people most likely to make money will be outfitters selling gear and provisions to those who have the gold lust.
Stop pirating the fuck out of every artists' music on P2P networks for one. We kinda have to show that there's a demand for it.
Fuck that. Things always get worse. Look at DVDs. They started out OK--- movies in a clean format, random access, extra features, all good. Once DVDs became popular THEN it was time to fuck it up by pinching every nickel out of the format. First we had unskippable FBI warnings. Then unskippable movie previews. Now we have unskippable ads and previews at the beginning of disks. Combine that with increased product placement in the movies themselves, "enhanced" region encoding and media companies suing the hind legs off companies that make legitimate products like DVD X Copy and at some point you have to say "Enough is enough!" and start pushing back. The IP rights media companies claim were granted by "We the People" and not the other way around. Abuse those rights and you can kiss our collective asses because you have no rights unless the majority of the people think you do.
Enter p2p file sharing. The computer technology that's being used to systematically break the back of the working man is now bringing the working man some dividends in the form of easy copying of any and all media he can get his grubby hands on. One thing corporations have taught us is that there is only one rule and that is to do anything you can get away with it. Live by the sword, die by the sword. If you twist the rules, lie, cheat and steal then you shouldn't be surprised when others follow your example. That's why the media companies can BITE ME. Every dog has his day and ours is today.
Why compete with slave labor when you can exploit it yourself?The pay difference is so great between India and here that you can set up your own development or consulting company, hire cheap Indian labor to do the work and pay yourself to manage them out of the profits. Only a fool competes with slaves; the smart man finds a way to get the slaves to work for him, too.
It's no surprise than IBM and Microsoft use similar tactics. Graft is as old as civilization. Support of Linux does not make IBM any less a corporate reprobate. IBM supports Linux because their proprietary server offerings were losing. Computer companies always rush to embrace standards and open projects when they're getting their asses handed to them in the marketplace. Corporate motives are not your motives. Never forget it. The enemy of your enemy isn't necessarily your friend. Think smallpox.
Geeks are what nerds call themselves to feel better about themselves. It's like that trekker/trekkie thing. It's like one flasher criticizing another because he's uncircumsized--- as if anyone else gives a fuck.
Well, yeah, that $30 rebate looks real good until you open the box and find that the rebate form demands your name, address, fifty other pieces of personal information and a photo of your naked ass in order to get the money.
It's so nice that they are keeping it going. It was Stalin that said "Take away their language, take away their souls". Imagine the good that the Navajo talkers did in WW II. Would've been a shame if we didn't have them. The war would have been WAY tougher.
Ahhh, the heirs of the genocidal conquerors did learn. "Kill them all!" as an m.o. has been replaced with "Kill all but a few--- you might need a few slaves."
... get up with money-grubbing fleas. Say what you like about the FSF and the FreeBSD Foundation, but you know they aren't going to hire a bunch of suits, grab up the code, add closed-source proprietary extensions and sell it--- turning their back on the community that built 98% of what they are selling. For-profit corporations are about money, money and only money. Trust their greedy asses at your own peril.
Unless its like there is no oil and no coal, nobodys gonna wake up.
Hey, now there's an idea.
Oil-eating bacteria already exist, so why don't we pump some of those little fuckers down the oil wells to speed things along? Exponential growth and an abundant food supply ought to take care of the rest.
I'm also somewhat confused by this new trend of attaching everything to cellphones and making it suck.
It's to distract you from the fact that the core function of a cellphone. communication, still sucks. The cellphone manufacturers need some way to keep moving hardware despite the fact that call fidelity isn't improving and bit rates are still pitiful.
Don't think in terms of "getting paid for your vote." Consider that someone might be literally in fear for his or her life.
That kind of intimidation can be applied regardless of whether there is an audit trail. "If candidate X loses this election, I'm going to come round and break your daughter's legs." It doesn't matter if the poor sod can't prove he voted for candidate X, he is going to think of his little girl, crippled and in agony, and vote as ordered.
If it's a matter of husbands beating their wives if they vote the wrong way, it is probably just one more beating added to the many already being administered. The right thing is for women to get out of such situations, not to hamstring the election system just to protect them.
This is 2003. We should be long beyond this stupid discussion about how to use computers in elections. Banks entrust trillions of dollars to electronic systems and having those systems work properly matters a whole hell of a lot more than whether some dumbfuck who never reads a newspaper gets his vote counted properly. Chrissakes, none of this is rocket-science. We've had public-key crypto for over twenty years now. I refuse to believe that we can't get this right or that it is intractably dfifficult.
An audit trail can be something as simple as a printout in a back room, with each vote signed digitally with the voting precinct's private key. All the voting precincts' public keys
could be posted on the web along with the data dump from the whole election so anyone could audit the results. If each voter chose a secret 128 bit random number and could record
that along with their vote, then they could find the vote that contains their number and verify their vote is correct in the data dump, while maintaining the secrecy of their ballot.
The flaw in this system is that it enables vote selling, but fuck it, money already dominates politics so what difference does it make?
The article was nearly content-free but the threat is real. Forget lasers and all that shit. Simple kinetic weapons work extremely well in space. If you know your enemy relies heavily on GPS tracking and satellite-enabled communication, a couple of tons of gravel in the correct retrograde orbits could destroy their systems in short order. ANd since the crap is in orbit, it's the gift that keeps on giving.
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Lack of interest in aesthetics is why there will be, under no circumstances, sex for you at the end of the evening.
I've got three accounts logged in, all playing different songs under iTunes. Terrible racket, but I can verify that it works. iTunes 4.5.
Aha, so you're the one who spent over US$29,000 at the iTMS. :-)
Hardly any time is wasted. CD-RW's can be burned and ripped while you're doing something else.
No plastic is wasted, CD-RW's are reusable, supposedly thousands of times.
The metadata (song title, album title, genre, etc.) isn't lost in the burn/re-rip cycle. iTunes stores the data on the CD somehow.
There is plenty of reason to still use hymn. The iTMS terms of service give Apple the right to change the rules as to how you can use the music you have purchased, at any time, for any reason, and you have no recourse. How safe would you feel if Apple stopped being just a flack for the record companies and was bought by a record company? That record company could decide that you ought to start paying a subscription fee in order to continue to access your music... and according the terms of service you agreed to, they can do it.
I hope Lite-On's products are rock-solid because it couldn't be more obvious from the stilted langauge on the web site that a conversation with customer service is going to be a frustrating experience.
Nobody picks up a grain of rice with chopsticks. Chinese pick up the bowl and tip the rice dregs into their mouths just like anyone else with a brain.
Ah, I see. Along with bankruptcy protection, and tax breaks for businesses that lose money, we also have to pay for their failed products, even if we had the good sense not to buy those products explicitly when they were on sale. Gee, thanks. I feel much better about pirating stuff now. If when I make legitimate purchases I'm paying for stuff I didn't get then it's only fair that I get some stuff for which I didn't pay. P2P. Power to the people.
Two possibilities: it's a joke or it's a scam. Why? No one would be stupid enough to tip off other fortune hunters if they'd found Atlantis. There must be tons of gold and other valuable artifacts. If Atlantis has been found the area would be swarming with ships and divers which the finder of Atlantis would not want unless... it's a scam to drum up business for all the boat and scuba rental outfits for tens of miles around. It'll be like the placer gold rushes in North America. The people most likely to make money will be outfitters selling gear and provisions to those who have the gold lust.
Stop pirating the fuck out of every artists' music on P2P networks for one. We kinda have to show that there's a demand for it.
Fuck that. Things always get worse. Look at DVDs. They started out OK--- movies in a clean format, random access, extra features, all good. Once DVDs became popular THEN it was time to fuck it up by pinching every nickel out of the format. First we had unskippable FBI warnings. Then unskippable movie previews. Now we have unskippable ads and previews at the beginning of disks. Combine that with increased product placement in the movies themselves, "enhanced" region encoding and media companies suing the hind legs off companies that make legitimate products like DVD X Copy and at some point you have to say "Enough is enough!" and start pushing back. The IP rights media companies claim were granted by "We the People" and not the other way around. Abuse those rights and you can kiss our collective asses because you have no rights unless the majority of the people think you do.
Enter p2p file sharing. The computer technology that's being used to systematically break the back of the working man is now bringing the working man some dividends in the form of easy copying of any and all media he can get his grubby hands on. One thing corporations have taught us is that there is only one rule and that is to do anything you can get away with it. Live by the sword, die by the sword. If you twist the rules, lie, cheat and steal then you shouldn't be surprised when others follow your example. That's why the media companies can BITE ME. Every dog has his day and ours is today.
Why compete with slave labor when you can exploit it yourself?The pay difference is so great between India and here that you can set up your own development or consulting company, hire cheap Indian labor to do the work and pay yourself to manage them out of the profits. Only a fool competes with slaves; the smart man finds a way to get the slaves to work for him, too.
It's no surprise than IBM and Microsoft use similar tactics. Graft is as old as civilization. Support of Linux does not make IBM any less a corporate reprobate. IBM supports Linux because their proprietary server offerings were losing. Computer companies always rush to embrace standards and open projects when they're getting their asses handed to them in the marketplace. Corporate motives are not your motives. Never forget it. The enemy of your enemy isn't necessarily your friend. Think smallpox.
Geeks are what nerds call themselves to feel better about themselves. It's like that trekker/trekkie thing. It's like one flasher criticizing another because he's uncircumsized--- as if anyone else gives a fuck.
Well, yeah, that $30 rebate looks real good until you open the box and find that the rebate form demands your name, address, fifty other pieces of personal information and a photo of your naked ass in order to get the money.
When you're standing on the throat of one of these pinhead bureaucrats. As in "Die, ignorant slave!"
... keep getting spanked.
Ahhh, the heirs of the genocidal conquerors did learn. "Kill them all!" as an m.o. has been replaced with "Kill all but a few--- you might need a few slaves."
... get up with money-grubbing fleas. Say what you like about the FSF and the FreeBSD Foundation, but you know they aren't going to hire a bunch of suits, grab up the code, add closed-source proprietary extensions and sell it--- turning their back on the community that built 98% of what they are selling. For-profit corporations are about money, money and only money. Trust their greedy asses at your own peril.
It's not redundant if the site has been slashdotted into oblivion and the cut-and-paste is the the only way we're going to see the paper today.
This is an intrusion detection system, not cryptography.
Hey, now there's an idea. Oil-eating bacteria already exist, so why don't we pump some of those little fuckers down the oil wells to speed things along? Exponential growth and an abundant food supply ought to take care of the rest.
Anyone have an idea how to get rid of the coal?
It's to distract you from the fact that the core function of a cellphone. communication, still sucks. The cellphone manufacturers need some way to keep moving hardware despite the fact that call fidelity isn't improving and bit rates are still pitiful.
That kind of intimidation can be applied regardless of whether there is an audit trail. "If candidate X loses this election, I'm going to come round and break your daughter's legs." It doesn't matter if the poor sod can't prove he voted for candidate X, he is going to think of his little girl, crippled and in agony, and vote as ordered.
If it's a matter of husbands beating their wives if they vote the wrong way, it is probably just one more beating added to the many already being administered. The right thing is for women to get out of such situations, not to hamstring the election system just to protect them.
An audit trail can be something as simple as a printout in a back room, with each vote signed digitally with the voting precinct's private key. All the voting precincts' public keys could be posted on the web along with the data dump from the whole election so anyone could audit the results. If each voter chose a secret 128 bit random number and could record that along with their vote, then they could find the vote that contains their number and verify their vote is correct in the data dump, while maintaining the secrecy of their ballot.
The flaw in this system is that it enables vote selling, but fuck it, money already dominates politics so what difference does it make?
The article was nearly content-free but the threat is real. Forget lasers and all that shit. Simple kinetic weapons work extremely well in space. If you know your enemy relies heavily on GPS tracking and satellite-enabled communication, a couple of tons of gravel in the correct retrograde orbits could destroy their systems in short order. ANd since the crap is in orbit, it's the gift that keeps on giving.