I think what it is saying is our universe split like cells, at LEAST at every point you make a quantum measurement. You don't exist in a single universe, per se, but rather a long string of universes you used to be in, up to the point of the one you are in now.
So maybe underneath, this says something about what time really is.
They bought up all the FuncoLands and stopped selling practically all previous generation used games... which is all it was good for. THeir used games go for a mere pittance under what the new retail would cost... making it practically pointless.
It doesn't even really matter if this guy even believes that the GPL is sound. The years long court battle to emerge from it, regardless, will keep him busily employed.
At what point does this become unimportant? It isn't about throwing this man into the light, but rather his practices... which most CERTAINLY SHOULD NOT be ignored.
In fact, an employee's pay stub probably has enough information on it to steal that employee's identity. Yes, the public has a right to know what a public employee earns. The public doesn't have a right to steal a public employee's identity.
But it is illegal to steal someones identity! Surely no one would break the law! The point is moot!
If I am not mistaken, AutoCAD is one of those softwares that requires a dongle to use... at least at some point it did. I remember the nightmare of admining a few workstations where we had to keep such things in check. Had a dongle not work anymore. That was a real treat.
So, it sounds like you are siding with the folks that went over the IT depts head. Quite frankly, it is a complete load of horseshit. WE are the ones who read Bugtraq/Slashdot/etc. At what point do you think that the IT staff lost their ability to evaluate the implications of rolling out new whiz bang bleeding edge software? The bureaucracy is in place so that the PROFESSIONALS have time to calculate the risks that end users just WONT see. This process may be convoluted in some environments, but it doesn't mean it is a bad idea. Imagine you take your car in for inspection, and the mechanic says "Your car is in need of serious work. Driving it is very likely to cause it to explode. We can't let you drive this until it is fixed" (As in, fail inspection). You get all huffy and go to the garage manager who somehow or another owes you a favor... so you drive the car home and it blows up in your face. Are you going to take responsibility? Didn't think so.
While I am leaning toward agreeing with you, I have to put a stick in your wheel spokes. I was watching something on the discovery channel about a team of researchers called "The North American Ape Alliance". Their mission is to study and prove/disprove that there are wild apes in North America. But if you search google for "North American Ape Alliance", you get just two links, which simply list a certain doctors name (Richard Wrangham) as belonging to this group... but no site for this group. No papers, no indication of funding, nothing. But they exist.
This may come as a shock, but you can't find EVERYTHING on the internet.
In windows (XP), this device driver, called FBWF (File Based Write Filter), is available with the Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007. There is also a less popular alternative called EWF (Enhanced Write Filter), available in the same pack.
Because if Joe Hacker did this, and it comes back to Joe Hacker, Joe Hacker is arrested. Now when they go to Sony, they'll be met with a wall of lawyers. When fingers start being pointed, you'll get "I wasn't the person who authorized/conceived said issue. And no, we can't tell you who did. Talk to our lawyers".
Uh dude... you think a webserver doesn't log what "banner" you downloaded? Is it that hard to conceive that maybe even a log scanner or even apache module is on the server side, using the "retrieval" to amass a database of what people are listening to?
I could be talking out of my ass, but I am speaking from what little experience I have working at a retail toy store. I was always told that we were NOT allowed to approach anyone for suspicion of theft UNLESS we had witnessed that said person had stole something. Even then it wasn't so cut and dry. For instance, little old ladies would put things in their huge carpet bag only to take it out when they got to the register. Aside from that, even cops need "Probable Cause" to start digging in your things, without a warrant. Acting shady or being an asshole isn't Probable Cause. At best it would be "Reasonable suspicion", which only does the men in blue any good if you are in a school or other govt building. But I am not sure that this even applies, because Best Buy are not the cops.
Metal has changed. The stuff you old folks like to think is metal (Metallica for example), would be, at best, classified today as hard rock. In some instances, just plain rock, or even classic rock. Starting with Korn, metal became something else. The term Nu Metal was born. It was much harder, much more busy, and tends to be much more disturbing than the metal of old.
But the circle never ends. JUST like Metallica, bands like Korn started softening their music... abandoning what made them good to get radio play and into Walmart. The genre label follows them, but it shouldn't. Now bands like Linkin Park are actually considered Nu Metal. It is the nature of the beast, like it or hate it.
Well, I've never built a live CD or even actually use X locally on my linux machines anymore, but from what I remember, X would try and start with the graphic driver you have specified... if it didn't work for whatever reason, it would just exit. Then you had to manually tweak settings. If you got frustrated enough, there was always VESA. That should always work... but it doesn't. Then the last chance would be VGA mode. Technically, all of this can be wrapped into startx... I just don't think anyone has approached it. Both because of the "RTFM n00b" mentality of the linux community when someone complains, and the fact that WHO really wants to run X in VGA mode?
IF you can afford your lawyers time, I'd say this method is far from "Poor man's..." anything. Though I completely agree with you that proper copywrite channels should be persued, a dated envelope with a reputable lawyer attesting to its authenticity should be pretty solid. This is NOT to be confused with something such as sending yourself a certified letter.
Your argument is equally horseshit. It is like saying that women should be on the front line, equally, with men. No, they shouldn't. I will tell you that a woman POW will get raped dozens of times a day, a situation for most far worse than death. You will tell me that the enemy can equally rape a man just as much. SURE they CAN.... but it doesn't work that way in real life.
If you look dirty or smell dirty, or taste dirty, regardless whether you think you are or not, you are dirty. This is how a faceless corporation will see it. This is how the stock holders will see it. This is how the voters will see it. No one said life was fair.
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Do you even know what encapsulation means?
I think what it is saying is our universe split like cells, at LEAST at every point you make a quantum measurement. You don't exist in a single universe, per se, but rather a long string of universes you used to be in, up to the point of the one you are in now.
So maybe underneath, this says something about what time really is.
I could do it with a 1969 microwave. I am sure McGiver could do it with a rock and a used condom. No software needed!
They bought up all the FuncoLands and stopped selling practically all previous generation used games... which is all it was good for. THeir used games go for a mere pittance under what the new retail would cost... making it practically pointless.
So as not to be confused with Cambridge University of Idaho! Are you suprised that there is a California University... of PENNSYLVANIA!? Or even an Indiana University... of Pennsylvania
It doesn't even really matter if this guy even believes that the GPL is sound. The years long court battle to emerge from it, regardless, will keep him busily employed.
At what point does this become unimportant? It isn't about throwing this man into the light, but rather his practices... which most CERTAINLY SHOULD NOT be ignored.
In fact, an employee's pay stub probably has enough information on it to steal that employee's identity. Yes, the public has a right to know what a public employee earns. The public doesn't have a right to steal a public employee's identity.
But it is illegal to steal someones identity! Surely no one would break the law! The point is moot!
If I am not mistaken, AutoCAD is one of those softwares that requires a dongle to use... at least at some point it did. I remember the nightmare of admining a few workstations where we had to keep such things in check. Had a dongle not work anymore. That was a real treat.
Why do people always assume that IT-savvy and "in IT" are synonyms?
Because that IS the way it SHOULD be. Anything else is a mistake.
So, it sounds like you are siding with the folks that went over the IT depts head. Quite frankly, it is a complete load of horseshit. WE are the ones who read Bugtraq/Slashdot/etc. At what point do you think that the IT staff lost their ability to evaluate the implications of rolling out new whiz bang bleeding edge software? The bureaucracy is in place so that the PROFESSIONALS have time to calculate the risks that end users just WONT see. This process may be convoluted in some environments, but it doesn't mean it is a bad idea. Imagine you take your car in for inspection, and the mechanic says "Your car is in need of serious work. Driving it is very likely to cause it to explode. We can't let you drive this until it is fixed" (As in, fail inspection). You get all huffy and go to the garage manager who somehow or another owes you a favor... so you drive the car home and it blows up in your face. Are you going to take responsibility? Didn't think so.
Could only have gotten lessons from Klerck... RIP
While I am leaning toward agreeing with you, I have to put a stick in your wheel spokes. I was watching something on the discovery channel about a team of researchers called "The North American Ape Alliance". Their mission is to study and prove/disprove that there are wild apes in North America. But if you search google for "North American Ape Alliance", you get just two links, which simply list a certain doctors name (Richard Wrangham) as belonging to this group... but no site for this group. No papers, no indication of funding, nothing. But they exist.
This may come as a shock, but you can't find EVERYTHING on the internet.
"PIC", not "PICK". You used PIC BASIC, and the machines were outfitted with a PIC Controller.
In windows (XP), this device driver, called FBWF (File Based Write Filter), is available with the Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007. There is also a less popular alternative called EWF (Enhanced Write Filter), available in the same pack.
Because if Joe Hacker did this, and it comes back to Joe Hacker, Joe Hacker is arrested. Now when they go to Sony, they'll be met with a wall of lawyers. When fingers start being pointed, you'll get "I wasn't the person who authorized/conceived said issue. And no, we can't tell you who did. Talk to our lawyers".
Uh dude... you think a webserver doesn't log what "banner" you downloaded? Is it that hard to conceive that maybe even a log scanner or even apache module is on the server side, using the "retrieval" to amass a database of what people are listening to?
I could be talking out of my ass, but I am speaking from what little experience I have working at a retail toy store. I was always told that we were NOT allowed to approach anyone for suspicion of theft UNLESS we had witnessed that said person had stole something. Even then it wasn't so cut and dry. For instance, little old ladies would put things in their huge carpet bag only to take it out when they got to the register. Aside from that, even cops need "Probable Cause" to start digging in your things, without a warrant. Acting shady or being an asshole isn't Probable Cause. At best it would be "Reasonable suspicion", which only does the men in blue any good if you are in a school or other govt building. But I am not sure that this even applies, because Best Buy are not the cops.
Metal has changed. The stuff you old folks like to think is metal (Metallica for example), would be, at best, classified today as hard rock. In some instances, just plain rock, or even classic rock. Starting with Korn, metal became something else. The term Nu Metal was born. It was much harder, much more busy, and tends to be much more disturbing than the metal of old.
But the circle never ends. JUST like Metallica, bands like Korn started softening their music... abandoning what made them good to get radio play and into Walmart. The genre label follows them, but it shouldn't. Now bands like Linkin Park are actually considered Nu Metal. It is the nature of the beast, like it or hate it.
Well, I've never built a live CD or even actually use X locally on my linux machines anymore, but from what I remember, X would try and start with the graphic driver you have specified... if it didn't work for whatever reason, it would just exit. Then you had to manually tweak settings. If you got frustrated enough, there was always VESA. That should always work... but it doesn't. Then the last chance would be VGA mode. Technically, all of this can be wrapped into startx... I just don't think anyone has approached it. Both because of the "RTFM n00b" mentality of the linux community when someone complains, and the fact that WHO really wants to run X in VGA mode?
The obvious solution is to create an SSH session between the keyboard and the controller.
IF you can afford your lawyers time, I'd say this method is far from "Poor man's ..." anything. Though I completely agree with you that proper copywrite channels should be persued, a dated envelope with a reputable lawyer attesting to its authenticity should be pretty solid. This is NOT to be confused with something such as sending yourself a certified letter.
Apes... don't have... tails.
Your argument is equally horseshit. It is like saying that women should be on the front line, equally, with men. No, they shouldn't. I will tell you that a woman POW will get raped dozens of times a day, a situation for most far worse than death. You will tell me that the enemy can equally rape a man just as much. SURE they CAN.... but it doesn't work that way in real life.
If you look dirty or smell dirty, or taste dirty, regardless whether you think you are or not, you are dirty. This is how a faceless corporation will see it. This is how the stock holders will see it. This is how the voters will see it. No one said life was fair.
Unsurprisingly, humans and apes share a remarkable number of matching viral DNA chunks.)
Well DUH, considering humans ARE apes