However it would also be naive, I think, to ignore the fact that there are some people who will buy cards with no intention of ever playing the card game just to get an item inside World of Warcraft.
You're absolutely right. It's just those people wouldn't complain about it.
You bought the card game - don't complain that the free extras don't match up to your expectations. You're furious that you have to buy 20 meals to get a free pudding? I'd base my purchase on the quality and value of the meals, personally...
I wasn't aware that the size of the black hole affects the eventual evaporation. All black holes eventually evaporate, given no influx of matter was how I understood it. The smaller the black hole, the quicker the evaporation, though...
Their paths don't bend - it is the paths themselves that are distorted in space-time by the gravity well. This distortion appears to be bent in three dimensions - to the photon it is perfectly straight...
(ok, ok, simply *massive* oversimplification here - to the point of error, but I hope you understand my motives.)
The fast charge has its obvious benefits, but I'm wondering about the durability of such nanotube filaments in the face of, say, the treatment your average laptop battery would have. Are these things resilient enough to be bashed around?
Are these capacitors only likely to be suitable for for small scale charges/discharges? Mobile phones? laptops? cars themselves?
More questions than insights, I'm afraid, but I find it fascinating
Without that information it would not be possible for people to steal the content
So the files actually block accesses from anywhere but the site? I think (but don't know) that you are in error.
In fact there's a deeper point to this: you now claim that metadata is illegal to host... whereas there is no such claim in the licenses of any software/movie. Am I not allowed to mention the length of a movie? The size of a software download? Yes, spurious, but I hope you see what I'm driving at: Information about an illegal download can't always be illegal in and of itself.
While accepting that there's no good reason except pushing the UMD format for crippling the video, there's plenty of good software out there to convert from DVD to a format suitable (and eminently watchable) for the PSP.
Sounds like you need DVD Decrypter and PSP Video 9.
These might help:
http://seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com/psp/dvd_to_ps p.htmlhttp://www.pspvideo9.com/
I live in a country that allows me to view the video as I please, having bought a copy of it. Just make sure you do to... (And yes, I advocate emigrating)
Holding someone for 90 days without charge, then finding their computer hard-drive didn't actually hold any incriminating evidence doesn't look too good. Is there anything that stops them looking at the hard drive after having to release a suspect?
IANAL, but if your prima facie evidence is encrypted on a computer, what right have you got to arrest them in the first place?
and I had - on the BBC last week. Don't you just hate it when you find things out before Slashdot does? You have to spend time actually doing something at work then...
I question the tone of the headline and the content. The implication is that British sites are being targetted exclusively. Being a British Government publication, this would have been their remit. I think that if the net was thrown wider you'd see that this is a general problem for the internet as a whole, and also for personal as well as business and Government computers.
The article is correct in so far as it goes, but is far to narrow its view to be newsworthy. It would have been far more interesting if they'd found that other territories weren't being targetted. My suspicion is that there isn't any targetting - only carpet bombing.
I'm currently involved in developing a wireless service tied to museums and libraries in Wales. The idea is that where people don't have their own kit, we'll have loan stock to avoid social exclusion.
I don't think RFID is the complete answer to tracking the hardware (Laptops or PocketPCs) that'll be on loan, but it could be part of the system.
Anyone with ideas about the ballpark figures involved in setting up something like this?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I'll bite - I'm Welsh. And I found that quite offensive. Racism is something I cannot condone. Humour, yes. Racist humour, no.
You bought the card game - don't complain that the free extras don't match up to your expectations. You're furious that you have to buy 20 meals to get a free pudding? I'd base my purchase on the quality and value of the meals, personally...
Apologies to the hooked:9
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=2366
I wasn't aware that the size of the black hole affects the eventual evaporation. All black holes eventually evaporate, given no influx of matter was how I understood it. The smaller the black hole, the quicker the evaporation, though...
Sir, I salute you! One of the videos that make me love the internet.
Their paths don't bend - it is the paths themselves that are distorted in space-time by the gravity well. This distortion appears to be bent in three dimensions - to the photon it is perfectly straight...
(ok, ok, simply *massive* oversimplification here - to the point of error, but I hope you understand my motives.)
...on the millions of U.S. WoW players unleashed on the internet when WoW is down for maintenance. gg Blizz *cough* Zonk.
Does anyone really care? They're all too busy playing, surely...
Read the introduction?
"To deter misuse, all Fon users must identify themselves by a username and password before they can access the hotspot."
I too have given up reading the articles. Perhaps I should follow your lead and give up on reading altogether. :)
You implied that a Slashdot comment author has a wife/girlfriend. Please don't. It only makes the inmates restless.
The fast charge has its obvious benefits, but I'm wondering about the durability of such nanotube filaments in the face of, say, the treatment your average laptop battery would have. Are these things resilient enough to be bashed around?
Are these capacitors only likely to be suitable for for small scale charges/discharges? Mobile phones? laptops? cars themselves?
More questions than insights, I'm afraid, but I find it fascinating
Personally, I don't think that the handguns issue is one America is better at. Homicide statistics, and the associated Darwin Awards, maybe...
:)]
You are right though, that you're driving towards the fact that there exists no perfect country*
[*except Belgium. But then, perfection is boring.
News for Nerds?
"Tech company tries to stir up some business using FUD"
Hardly.
Stuff that matters?
"Macs? Pfft."
*Comment removed due to danger of fanboi activity*
So the files actually block accesses from anywhere but the site? I think (but don't know) that you are in error.
In fact there's a deeper point to this: you now claim that metadata is illegal to host... whereas there is no such claim in the licenses of any software/movie. Am I not allowed to mention the length of a movie? The size of a software download? Yes, spurious, but I hope you see what I'm driving at: Information about an illegal download can't always be illegal in and of itself.
While accepting that there's no good reason except pushing the UMD format for crippling the video, there's plenty of good software out there to convert from DVD to a format suitable (and eminently watchable) for the PSP. Sounds like you need DVD Decrypter and PSP Video 9. These might help: http://seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com/psp/dvd_to_ps p.html
http://www.pspvideo9.com/
I live in a country that allows me to view the video as I please, having bought a copy of it. Just make sure you do to... (And yes, I advocate emigrating)
...where *did* you think all those Windows Millenium Edition licenses went?
Holding someone for 90 days without charge, then finding their computer hard-drive didn't actually hold any incriminating evidence doesn't look too good. Is there anything that stops them looking at the hard drive after having to release a suspect? IANAL, but if your prima facie evidence is encrypted on a computer, what right have you got to arrest them in the first place?
and I had - on the BBC last week. Don't you just hate it when you find things out before Slashdot does? You have to spend time actually doing something at work then...
I question the tone of the headline and the content. The implication is that British sites are being targetted exclusively. Being a British Government publication, this would have been their remit. I think that if the net was thrown wider you'd see that this is a general problem for the internet as a whole, and also for personal as well as business and Government computers. The article is correct in so far as it goes, but is far to narrow its view to be newsworthy. It would have been far more interesting if they'd found that other territories weren't being targetted. My suspicion is that there isn't any targetting - only carpet bombing.
...and lots of changes? *starts* Oh dear god! It's Windows ME!
I'm currently involved in developing a wireless service tied to museums and libraries in Wales. The idea is that where people don't have their own kit, we'll have loan stock to avoid social exclusion. I don't think RFID is the complete answer to tracking the hardware (Laptops or PocketPCs) that'll be on loan, but it could be part of the system. Anyone with ideas about the ballpark figures involved in setting up something like this?
I'm not sure how things work across the pond (in the USA), but in little old Wales, don't people have to:
a) register a trademark/claim copyright;
and
b) actively protect their claimed Intellectual Property
in order to maintain their rights?
Rather reminds me of a case involving Private Eye (a paper publication akin to "The Onion") and Portakabin a while back...I'd hate to see the one about Finland...
And any guesses what they'll fill it with?