To add, look at this article (yes, I was the submiter, I know) and the original posting below by me (yes, I am pissed at what he did). Completely re-writing story submisions and adding in claims without proof is not what an editor does, not even a/. editor.
And if anyone asks what I would do if I was an editor, "I would not change a submited story (except for spelling mistakes) even if I didn't agree with it." I might not post it if there were factual errors about the article (such as with the MGM DVDs a few days ago), but as long as the summary is correct I would post it if it was newsworthy.
Also, what are the oldest fingerprints available, that would show up in a search?
The movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" had a moment where one of the senior car jackers was putting on gloves and the kid says he doesn't need them and gives him some fake fingertips with other fingerprints. Said if they came up they would come up with Elvis's (as in Presley) fingerprints. Already been thought of and used.
>A 40Gb writable device that easily attaches to one's computer.
Yeah, but Microsoft knows that all of their PCs run Windows and hence will never stay up long enough to write that kind of data anyway.
We get great uptime here at work and at home. Last time we rebooted was to install security updates. All PCs we have that are not on the network go for months without rebooting. Uptime is not a problem. Patching is.
If software can't be copyrighted or trademarked (note I do not include patented), here is what would be legal:
I could take a companies software the day it was released, make copies of it and sell it for whatever I wanted. Think Game companies have problems now? Just wait until they can't do anything.
I could make a game called HALF LIFE 2, and sell it online and people would have to worry about buying my game vs. the original game. And the Makers of Half Life couldn't fo jack.
The GPL would become worthless as it relies on copyrights in ordeer to work. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License.
I'll agree with you on the Patenting of software (although there might be an option for using it to a limited extent, say 3 years). But copyrights and trademarks of software are necessary.
After all, while orbital assembly may seem cool, it doesn't seem very cost-effective yet.
It will work a whole hell of a lot better than on earth assembly. To get to lunar orbit, you don't have to worry about earth gravity or anything. You won't need a smooth skin either. It could look like a flying pig and be as ugly as you wanted. You also don't have to worry about the thing staying intact and not getting damaged on the way up.
Today I recieved an e-mail from my bank saying that they wanted to verify my new government ID with my bank acount information. All I had to do was to go to this site and have my reader scan my ID card. Gee, I'm sure glad my bank is tough on security.
Depends on who you want to keep your stuff secure from. A collegue and me keep some of our passwords to computers on a sheet of paper posted on our cubical wall. The kicker is this. Most of the computers are accesible only by modem (and the #'s are not there) or are on our VPN (the VPN IPs are listed, though). These machines are not mission critical. The only people we have to worry about stealing the passwords are other employees or people who can get access into the building (hint: not many). Our main concern is not someone inside getting access, but someone from the outside. If someone on the inside wanted to do something, we figure there is nothing we should do, so why bother. Thats our logic for our shared passwords. As for our personal passwords? I use 9 characters that would take a while to brute force. Anyone on the outside is going to have trouble. Anyone on the inside, it's too late to do anything about it.
When the Public Schools stoped talking about "unimportant dead white guys" such as Washington, Jefferson and many others because it's racist. They don't even talk about George Marshall (much less the Martiall Plan). And sometimes I miss a key when typing (yeah, I see I forgot the 'a')
"Many of the serious applications we received came from users who reply to job postings without carefully reading the job description. Most of these applicants are ex-military, and they jumped at the chance of working in an exciting and high-risk field. As for the alien technology and other out-of-this-world references in our job posting, perhaps these ex-military personnel know something about government weapons research that we don't?" Nintendo's Senior Director of Public Relations Beth Llewelyn told GameDAILY BIZ.
Seeing as how my parents (both retired Mil) keep saying that they were using stuff, that just came out for us consumers, 20 years ago, I would say "yes, they do know something we don't". I have heard Military Tech described as this "Take what you see, evolve it 3 or 4 generations, that is what they (DoD) have". To be declasified in 20 or 30 years.
Weird, I've been getting less and less. Between my 4 accounts, I only get a few peices of spam a week. And my one account has been used as a spam-sucking email account for online forms etc.
Yeah, I've been trying to figure this out too. I've got 3 accounts, and 2 never get spam. The third one has some filters set up that eliminates most of the minute amount that is left. I rarely get more than 4 emails a month that I actually have to do anything for.
2) Employ teams of people to respond to SPAM (at a government level). SPAM works because they get a low return rate, but the people who do respond actually buy stuff. Thats what keeps it all going. If we made it so that a decent percentage of the replies were time wasters, the average company would suddenly have to employ lots of resources to deal with false responses. In effect, it would spam them. Suddenly its no longer as cheap to advertise this way.
This wouldn't work as they use a computer system to take order, like at amazon. They don't involve themselves personally in the sale.
When "journalists" begin considering one democratic election to be sufficient justification for not posing appropriate questions, one realizes that most everything is lost on "journalists" these days.
(For the USA) As I understand it, this started in the mid 80's during the Regan Administration. (Not because of Regan) When Network News started to consider themselves more as Entertainment rather than Information.
Nothing is to attribute this directly to CAN-SPAM. If you look at the graph supplied, there has been (on average) a linear increase in the % of email sent that is spam. Spam has always been on the increase and CAN-SPAM has done nothing to slow it down. Its all just a missrepresentation of the information.
hello Americans there is a whole world out there so stop hijacking words and understand that free software is a global thing , the sooner you get it the better for everybody
And why do dumb fucks like you keep trying to read more into an anouncement than people are actually saying. What part of that anouncement states that they are a "world" protection or anything of the sort. Cause I shure as hell didn't read it. As for "free software" exclusively an American thing now ? I don know where the fuck you got this from but you might as post the link since it sure as hell wasn't he same article I read. The foundation was set up in the US to protect NPOs from Software Patents in the US. Quit trying to read more into it than is actually there. And quit assuming that no one in the US doesn't know about the rest of the world. As for you comments? You show equal ignorance by using "Americans" which applys to anyone in the western hemisphere seeing as how everyone there is in "the Americas". So stop wasting your breath.
Flipside is, instead of putting a single 60 MW reactor, we put several smaller ones in orbit. We have already made reactors that can survive their rocket being blown up (as in without spreading any nuclear material around) so that is no problem.
> I've bought countless DVDs based entirely on the work of fansubbers,
WHAT THE FUCK!! Don't you know *anything* about this stuff? The fansub groups explicity do not want that to happen, because that is exactly what causes the companies to need to crack down, idiots like you buying illegal copies.
To me, what he said was that he bought DVDs based on what he saw from the fansubers. As in, watch fansub, go buy official release on DVD. Not, watch fansub, buy DVD that was made using fansub.
They also choose to butcher some series (Card Captors, based of off Card Captor Sakura was a complete screw up) and use bad voice actors (same series, add in Magic Knights Rayearth as well) and (sometimes, not always) bad subbing.
I personally only watch it subed now so I could care less about the english dub. But for the Love of God WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE A DECENT SUB! I have come across ones where they completely butcher the translation to make it easy to understand! I want it to be close to the original, (preferably with a foot note explanation if necessary) in the Subs. When will they learn that Dubs are for the noobs (that don't buy much) and the subs are for the Otakus that are their core market?
Being a big fan of anime myself (and having the US DVDs to prove it), I am a big downloader of the fansubs that are not out in the US yet. Once a series comes out in the US, I put it on my "to buy" list. I have dropped $1k in a day (when I go to buy) to purchase the DVDs. For the others I know that do not have the level of disposable income I do, the still buy, but are more selective. Most of the stuff they download they will never buy (but do buy some, just not as much). And the ones that have never bought, I don't think they will ever buy. So it basically comes down to this: Those who buy, buy because they have seen the series. Those who don't buy, wouldn't buy it anyway, even if fansubing were to stop.
Most fansubers that I know of are distributed in the US. (That is not to say all, I just don't know of many) The fansubing setup is based around the fact that until the series are liscensed in the US, there is no distributor and no one has a copyright on it (look at Tolkien and Paperback copies of LotR as an example).
As for Japanese works as not being "official" until they're published in some more important country like the U.S. It's just that there is no copyright in those contries on those works until they are Licensed. Not I say License and Not Publish. Once a series has been Licensed in the US the ethical ones stop translating and releasing the series.
Just pray that no one tries to start publicly associating Anime with Hentai. I have often thought about coming up with a skit involving this, but I sure as hell hope that it never actually hapens.
Netscape V6 was the first one release after Netscape was bought by AOL. It was a Java Based program. Not that there is anything wrong with a java based program, it just doesn't belong on a desktop. In a web browser yes, but not on a desktop. And definitely not as a web browser.
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To add, look at this article (yes, I was the submiter, I know) and the original posting below by me (yes, I am pissed at what he did). Completely re-writing story submisions and adding in claims without proof is not what an editor does, not even a /. editor.
And if anyone asks what I would do if I was an editor, "I would not change a submited story (except for spelling mistakes) even if I didn't agree with it." I might not post it if there were factual errors about the article (such as with the MGM DVDs a few days ago), but as long as the summary is correct I would post it if it was newsworthy.
Also, what are the oldest fingerprints available, that would show up in a search?
The movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" had a moment where one of the senior car jackers was putting on gloves and the kid says he doesn't need them and gives him some fake fingertips with other fingerprints. Said if they came up they would come up with Elvis's (as in Presley) fingerprints. Already been thought of and used.
Those who forget their history and all that.
Yes, unfortunately they don't teach anything about this part of US history either.
Not enough allow you to mount the unit as a drive and copy the files there.
Look up MPIO and Creative. They use the USB mass storage driver. Decent designs and interfaces too.
>A 40Gb writable device that easily attaches to one's computer.
Yeah, but Microsoft knows that all of their PCs run Windows and hence will never stay up long enough to write that kind of data anyway.
We get great uptime here at work and at home. Last time we rebooted was to install security updates. All PCs we have that are not on the network go for months without rebooting. Uptime is not a problem. Patching is.
If software can't be copyrighted or trademarked (note I do not include patented), here is what would be legal:
I could take a companies software the day it was released, make copies of it and sell it for whatever I wanted. Think Game companies have problems now? Just wait until they can't do anything.
I could make a game called HALF LIFE 2, and sell it online and people would have to worry about buying my game vs. the original game. And the Makers of Half Life couldn't fo jack.
The GPL would become worthless as it relies on copyrights in ordeer to work. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License.
I'll agree with you on the Patenting of software (although there might be an option for using it to a limited extent, say 3 years). But copyrights and trademarks of software are necessary.
After all, while orbital assembly may seem cool, it doesn't seem very cost-effective yet.
It will work a whole hell of a lot better than on earth assembly. To get to lunar orbit, you don't have to worry about earth gravity or anything. You won't need a smooth skin either. It could look like a flying pig and be as ugly as you wanted. You also don't have to worry about the thing staying intact and not getting damaged on the way up.
As for a heavy lifter, That might be what heavy rockets are for. Though I wouldn't mind this: http://nuclearspace.com/a_liberty_ship.htm
Today I recieved an e-mail from my bank saying that they wanted to verify my new government ID with my bank acount information. All I had to do was to go to this site and have my reader scan my ID card. Gee, I'm sure glad my bank is tough on security.
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Depends on who you want to keep your stuff secure from. A collegue and me keep some of our passwords to computers on a sheet of paper posted on our cubical wall. The kicker is this. Most of the computers are accesible only by modem (and the #'s are not there) or are on our VPN (the VPN IPs are listed, though). These machines are not mission critical. The only people we have to worry about stealing the passwords are other employees or people who can get access into the building (hint: not many). Our main concern is not someone inside getting access, but someone from the outside. If someone on the inside wanted to do something, we figure there is nothing we should do, so why bother. Thats our logic for our shared passwords. As for our personal passwords? I use 9 characters that would take a while to brute force. Anyone on the outside is going to have trouble. Anyone on the inside, it's too late to do anything about it.
When the Public Schools stoped talking about "unimportant dead white guys" such as Washington, Jefferson and many others because it's racist. They don't even talk about George Marshall (much less the Martiall Plan). And sometimes I miss a key when typing (yeah, I see I forgot the 'a')
"Many of the serious applications we received came from users who reply to job postings without carefully reading the job description. Most of these applicants are ex-military, and they jumped at the chance of working in an exciting and high-risk field. As for the alien technology and other out-of-this-world references in our job posting, perhaps these ex-military personnel know something about government weapons research that we don't?" Nintendo's Senior Director of Public Relations Beth Llewelyn told GameDAILY BIZ.
Seeing as how my parents (both retired Mil) keep saying that they were using stuff, that just came out for us consumers, 20 years ago, I would say "yes, they do know something we don't". I have heard Military Tech described as this "Take what you see, evolve it 3 or 4 generations, that is what they (DoD) have". To be declasified in 20 or 30 years.
Weird, I've been getting less and less. Between my 4 accounts, I only get a few peices of spam a week. And my one account has been used as a spam-sucking email account for online forms etc.
Yeah, I've been trying to figure this out too. I've got 3 accounts, and 2 never get spam. The third one has some filters set up that eliminates most of the minute amount that is left. I rarely get more than 4 emails a month that I actually have to do anything for.
2) Employ teams of people to respond to SPAM (at a government level). SPAM works because they get a low return rate, but the people who do respond actually buy stuff. Thats what keeps it all going. If we made it so that a decent percentage of the replies were time wasters, the average company would suddenly have to employ lots of resources to deal with false responses. In effect, it would spam them. Suddenly its no longer as cheap to advertise this way.
This wouldn't work as they use a computer system to take order, like at amazon. They don't involve themselves personally in the sale.
When "journalists" begin considering one democratic election to be sufficient justification for not posing appropriate questions, one realizes that most everything is lost on "journalists" these days.
(For the USA) As I understand it, this started in the mid 80's during the Regan Administration. (Not because of Regan) When Network News started to consider themselves more as Entertainment rather than Information.
Nothing is to attribute this directly to CAN-SPAM. If you look at the graph supplied, there has been (on average) a linear increase in the % of email sent that is spam. Spam has always been on the increase and CAN-SPAM has done nothing to slow it down. Its all just a missrepresentation of the information.
hello Americans there is a whole world out there so stop hijacking words and understand that free software is a global thing , the sooner you get it the better for everybody
And why do dumb fucks like you keep trying to read more into an anouncement than people are actually saying. What part of that anouncement states that they are a "world" protection or anything of the sort. Cause I shure as hell didn't read it. As for "free software" exclusively an American thing now ? I don know where the fuck you got this from but you might as post the link since it sure as hell wasn't he same article I read. The foundation was set up in the US to protect NPOs from Software Patents in the US. Quit trying to read more into it than is actually there. And quit assuming that no one in the US doesn't know about the rest of the world. As for you comments? You show equal ignorance by using "Americans" which applys to anyone in the western hemisphere seeing as how everyone there is in "the Americas". So stop wasting your breath.
Flipside is, instead of putting a single 60 MW reactor, we put several smaller ones in orbit. We have already made reactors that can survive their rocket being blown up (as in without spreading any nuclear material around) so that is no problem.
We can generate 60-megawatts is space. It would just involve putting a nuclear reactor in space.
> I've bought countless DVDs based entirely on the work of fansubbers, WHAT THE FUCK!! Don't you know *anything* about this stuff? The fansub groups explicity do not want that to happen, because that is exactly what causes the companies to need to crack down, idiots like you buying illegal copies.
To me, what he said was that he bought DVDs based on what he saw from the fansubers. As in, watch fansub, go buy official release on DVD. Not, watch fansub, buy DVD that was made using fansub.
They also choose to butcher some series (Card Captors, based of off Card Captor Sakura was a complete screw up) and use bad voice actors (same series, add in Magic Knights Rayearth as well) and (sometimes, not always) bad subbing.
I personally only watch it subed now so I could care less about the english dub. But for the Love of God WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE A DECENT SUB! I have come across ones where they completely butcher the translation to make it easy to understand! I want it to be close to the original, (preferably with a foot note explanation if necessary) in the Subs. When will they learn that Dubs are for the noobs (that don't buy much) and the subs are for the Otakus that are their core market?
Being a big fan of anime myself (and having the US DVDs to prove it), I am a big downloader of the fansubs that are not out in the US yet. Once a series comes out in the US, I put it on my "to buy" list. I have dropped $1k in a day (when I go to buy) to purchase the DVDs. For the others I know that do not have the level of disposable income I do, the still buy, but are more selective. Most of the stuff they download they will never buy (but do buy some, just not as much). And the ones that have never bought, I don't think they will ever buy. So it basically comes down to this: Those who buy, buy because they have seen the series. Those who don't buy, wouldn't buy it anyway, even if fansubing were to stop.
Most fansubers that I know of are distributed in the US. (That is not to say all, I just don't know of many) The fansubing setup is based around the fact that until the series are liscensed in the US, there is no distributor and no one has a copyright on it (look at Tolkien and Paperback copies of LotR as an example).
As for Japanese works as not being "official" until they're published in some more important country like the U.S. It's just that there is no copyright in those contries on those works until they are Licensed. Not I say License and Not Publish. Once a series has been Licensed in the US the ethical ones stop translating and releasing the series.
Just pray that no one tries to start publicly associating Anime with Hentai. I have often thought about coming up with a skit involving this, but I sure as hell hope that it never actually hapens.
Netscape V6 was the first one release after Netscape was bought by AOL. It was a Java Based program. Not that there is anything wrong with a java based program, it just doesn't belong on a desktop. In a web browser yes, but not on a desktop. And definitely not as a web browser.