Whilst your solution is highly desirable, the technical and legal issues involved make it very difficult to achieve. What BT are doing is a good start.
There is some evidence that most people don't want LOTS of fast food, but the fast food companies have increased portion sizes because it's the easiest way to increase 'value', and people will eat what they buy. If McDonald's had increased the quality of their food rather than the quantity, they wouldn't be fighting such a PR battle now.
Community bug-fixes would be very helpful. Although Shareaza was a good program when I last used it, there were some problems with the BT implementation.
'can we call him "Sterl"?'
No, because somebody might get confused and start thinking that SCO is run by Mr. Darling McBride. Which would be a very bad thing.
If you go to my local [12 screen] cinema (I live in the UK) during the early afternoon on a weekday, you'll only see 3 or 4 staff working, serving food and selling tickets. None of them actually do ticket or piracy checks whilst a movie is being shown. Night-vision goggles aren't going to help much.
If the device is battery powered and survives the building collapsing, you would have to devote time and people to locating it and switching it off. Their time would be much better spent searching for survivors.
An explosion at a Glasgow factory last week caused the building to collapse, and some of the people trapped inside managed to contact the emergency services by cell phone, making them easier to locate. There hasn't been any suggestion that terrorists caused the explosion, but if a jammer had been in place and had survived the explosion, more people may have died.
Bah! 5%+ is nothing. Here in the UK sales tax (VAT) is 17.5%, which is charged on top of other taxes. For example, petrol duty is about 50p per litre at the moment, but with VAT that goes up to around 60p, so for the 80p you pay for a 1 litre of petrol (approx $5.25/US gallon) 75% is tax.
It appears the reward is only offered once a virus has done some serious damage, so it only has the effect of stopping one virus coder at a time. It does nothing to stop aspiring young virus writers from aspiring to be virus writers.
About two for every program they show (which is quite a lot if you take BBC 1 - 4 + News 24 and all the radio stations into account). One for programs they'll show in the near future, and one reminding how blindingly easy it is to pay the license fee, or how much trouble you'll be in if you don't.
I've been told that the major cause of a rise in sea level wouldn't be ice melting (whether it's on land or not), but rather the volume of the sea increasing because of rises in the temperature of the existing water.
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Don't meteorites get hot enough as they enter the atmosphere to destroy any life-form of a similar nature to those on earth?
"I will be the first person to send data over phone lines."
By the fact that I read your comment, I assume I'm the first person to recieve data over a telephone line. This is especially weird since it appears no one has managed to send any data yet.
"What [kind?] of freaks are in these testimonials?"
Imaginary ones.
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When anyone drives you nuts with "gray goo" type things, just ask them a few questions:
Can man create machines that can fly: Yes
Can man create machines that transport disease and infect organisms: Yes
Can man create machines that can stick to almost any solid surface: Umm.. probably
Can man combine all this into something that can stand on the head of a pin: No
Nature can, it's called the mosquito, and by transporting malaria it's probably killed more humans than anything else.
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Whilst your solution is highly desirable, the technical and legal issues involved make it very difficult to achieve. What BT are doing is a good start.
There is some evidence that most people don't want LOTS of fast food, but the fast food companies have increased portion sizes because it's the easiest way to increase 'value', and people will eat what they buy. If McDonald's had increased the quality of their food rather than the quantity, they wouldn't be fighting such a PR battle now.
Community bug-fixes would be very helpful. Although Shareaza was a good program when I last used it, there were some problems with the BT implementation.
'can we call him "Sterl"?' No, because somebody might get confused and start thinking that SCO is run by Mr. Darling McBride. Which would be a very bad thing.
If you go to my local [12 screen] cinema (I live in the UK) during the early afternoon on a weekday, you'll only see 3 or 4 staff working, serving food and selling tickets. None of them actually do ticket or piracy checks whilst a movie is being shown. Night-vision goggles aren't going to help much.
If the device is battery powered and survives the building collapsing, you would have to devote time and people to locating it and switching it off. Their time would be much better spent searching for survivors.
An explosion at a Glasgow factory last week caused the building to collapse, and some of the people trapped inside managed to contact the emergency services by cell phone, making them easier to locate. There hasn't been any suggestion that terrorists caused the explosion, but if a jammer had been in place and had survived the explosion, more people may have died.
Bah! 5%+ is nothing. Here in the UK sales tax (VAT) is 17.5%, which is charged on top of other taxes. For example, petrol duty is about 50p per litre at the moment, but with VAT that goes up to around 60p, so for the 80p you pay for a 1 litre of petrol (approx $5.25/US gallon) 75% is tax.
"Anyone write code that erases a users home folder and call it Microsoft Word." Even Microsoft can manage it!
It seems the original link isn't slashdotted, but yours is.
The flag is attached to pheonix (see this picture), but it isn't the US flag.
Slashdot's made it as top nigritude ultramarine story on Google News
It appears the reward is only offered once a virus has done some serious damage, so it only has the effect of stopping one virus coder at a time. It does nothing to stop aspiring young virus writers from aspiring to be virus writers.
It's going to take way more than $5million to clean up the Windows code.
So should I throw all my money into researching inflatable sex dolls? They fulfil all three conditions.
Plus 46 (perhaps more) local radio stations.
About two for every program they show (which is quite a lot if you take BBC 1 - 4 + News 24 and all the radio stations into account). One for programs they'll show in the near future, and one reminding how blindingly easy it is to pay the license fee, or how much trouble you'll be in if you don't.
Well, I'd rather be in one of these than one of these, yet the former weighs almost a tonne less. Weight isn't the only important factor.
Don't forget nuclear fussion powering our homes, Apple going bust and *BSD dying out, all within 15 years.
I wasn't aware that there was an unofficial Queen. I think you meant that "offical" English is often descirbed as The Queen's English.
I've been told that the major cause of a rise in sea level wouldn't be ice melting (whether it's on land or not), but rather the volume of the sea increasing because of rises in the temperature of the existing water.
Don't meteorites get hot enough as they enter the atmosphere to destroy any life-form of a similar nature to those on earth?
"I will be the first person to send data over phone lines." By the fact that I read your comment, I assume I'm the first person to recieve data over a telephone line. This is especially weird since it appears no one has managed to send any data yet.
"What [kind?] of freaks are in these testimonials?" Imaginary ones.
When anyone drives you nuts with "gray goo" type things, just ask them a few questions: Can man create machines that can fly: Yes Can man create machines that transport disease and infect organisms: Yes Can man create machines that can stick to almost any solid surface: Umm.. probably Can man combine all this into something that can stand on the head of a pin: No Nature can, it's called the mosquito, and by transporting malaria it's probably killed more humans than anything else.