The only problem I have with that is that the protestors are on public land, and they have the constitutional right to gather and protest. That you even need a 'permit' to protest is ludicrous. That the police feel it necessary to break up the protest instead of arresting the real troublemakers speak poorly of what the ideals of our constitution have come to.
Im glad to see the protests, it gives hope people havent totally been turned into sheep.
as for the WTO, they basically allow for the lowest common denominator. The past century of US history has been about working conditions in the labor force. The WTO places equal footing to those who abuse their workers with those who pay a proper wage and have proper safety conditions.
You know you have a hot issue when the Sierra Club teams up with the Teamsters
If two packets leave their respective servers at the same time, one coming to you at 30ms and 19 hops, and the other at 50ms and 12 hops, which packet will arrive first, and how sooner?
Slashdot math problem from hell
It's amazing though, not one mean hateful post in this whole conversation...
I see you've never actually worked with web pages. Netscape is 100% fubar. If you do anything more complicated than tables (Ie...DHTML and layers, and useful stuff, netscape bitchs, moans, and falls apart.) We'll whip out a page, work perfectly in IE than spend 3 days trying to get it to do the same thing in Netscape.
That may be true, but whats the point? People have DVDs because of the quality of picture and sound.. If you just crunch those down for transmission what have you gained? Even on a cable modem, it takes forever to get a movie off a warez site. Let alone finding the warez site with what you want in the first place...
Its easier (and cheaper, since time IS money) to go to blockbuster and rent the flick. And to those movies that are on the net but not released on tape yet, again, why bother? Do you really want to waste your time on a camcorder from the back of the theatre reproduction?
As someone pointed out, the first 4 groupings is the ISBN of the book. If you pull up the book in Amazon, each has a review by Amazon. The numbers are word offsets. The key thing to figure out is what they consider a word... I just did a preliminary scan through and came up with the following, if someone spends some time, they can undoubtably get it right...
Resonates from 918 tech to Alan
all ties brilliant coffers an sinks in
sent explains department cut and to men forget zoo would than
People need the bestselling conflict in the Information Age
The suitable specialist offers steps for secure source
As you can see, its not perfect. I was using Word, cutting text then using word count to get position. Things like hypenated words were screwing me up. But the last two sentences seem to well fitted to be chance.
if your asking why im posting this, well, this is some scam contest they are running for two weeks, with a "random drawing" at the end. Yeah right. Ive spent about as much time as I want to on it, Id be curious to the final solution once whoever it is puzzles it...
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Well how about this...
All the sites that are hosting it can encrypt
the deCSS with strong crypto
Since its encrypted they cant prove its the deCSS.
If the lawyers crack the crypto (well, steal the key), sue them for reverse engineering
The only problem I have with that is that the protestors are on public land, and they have the constitutional right to gather and protest. That you even need a 'permit' to protest is ludicrous. That the police feel it necessary to break up the protest instead of arresting the real troublemakers speak poorly of what the ideals of our constitution have come to.
Im glad to see the protests, it gives hope people havent totally been turned into sheep.
as for the WTO, they basically allow for the lowest common denominator. The past century of US history has been about working conditions in the labor force. The WTO places equal footing to those who abuse their workers with those who pay a proper wage and have proper safety conditions.
You know you have a hot issue when the Sierra Club teams up with the Teamsters
If two packets leave their respective servers at the same time, one coming to you at 30ms and 19 hops, and the other at 50ms and 12 hops, which packet will arrive first, and how sooner?
Slashdot math problem from hell
It's amazing though, not one mean hateful post in this whole conversation...
Compare software to dynamite.
Revolutionary, changed the way things were done. Caused a great deal of harm criminally too.
You can never blame the maker, only the user.
Something our (US) goverment should really remember.
Also reminds me how useful college is.
I see you've never actually worked with web pages. Netscape is 100% fubar. If you do anything more complicated than tables (Ie...DHTML and layers, and useful stuff, netscape bitchs, moans, and falls apart.) We'll whip out a page, work perfectly in IE than spend 3 days trying to get it to do the same thing in Netscape.
IE all in all is a very forgiving browser.
Actually, I think the next IPO is Andover... right around Thanksgiving.
That may be true, but whats the point? People have DVDs because of the quality of picture and sound.. If you just crunch those down for transmission what have you gained? Even on a cable modem, it takes forever to get a movie off a warez site. Let alone finding the warez site with what you want in the first place...
Its easier (and cheaper, since time IS money) to go to blockbuster and rent the flick. And to those movies that are on the net but not released on tape yet, again, why bother? Do you really want to waste your time on a camcorder from the back of the theatre reproduction?
My friend got past it the old fashioned way..
Didnt tell anyone.
works great
"Ray, next time someone asks you if you're a god, say YES"
For the hell of it, I actually read the rules.. There is 1 grand prize.. How cheesy. Not even runner up gift certificates...
Like I said, the devil is in the details.. Strip punctuation and you can get the right answer.
Or at least I believe its the solution.
As someone pointed out, the first 4 groupings is the ISBN of the book. If you pull up the book in Amazon, each has a review by Amazon. The numbers are word offsets. The key thing to figure out is what they consider a word... I just did a preliminary scan through and came up with the following, if someone spends some time, they can undoubtably get it right...
Resonates from 918 tech to Alan
all ties brilliant coffers an sinks in
sent explains department cut and to men forget zoo would than
People need the bestselling conflict in the Information Age
The suitable specialist offers steps for secure source
As you can see, its not perfect. I was using Word, cutting text then using word count to get position. Things like hypenated words were screwing me up. But the last two sentences seem to well fitted to be chance.
if your asking why im posting this, well, this is some scam contest they are running for two weeks, with a "random drawing" at the end. Yeah right. Ive spent about as much time as I want to on it, Id be curious to the final solution once whoever it is puzzles it...