Well, to protect the Martian environment ofcourse. Would you like to see the whole planet littered with disused rovers because every time some of them fail, another mission drops some new ones onto the planet? Better make them longer-lived. And by the way, they should send a garbage spacetruck to pick up discarded rovers and have them decommissioned at a recycling plant here on Earth.
Let's start a campaign: Save the Martian environment!
Congratulations! You may have just provided the missing essential item for the creation of an Over-Unity Money-Machine!
Let's see, here are what I think are the necessary steps:
1. Software house develops application, creates Gold Master CD. 2. Software house brings Gold Master to CD manufacturer, preprints and box designs to publisher and pays for the production of, say, 200 million copies of said items
(Money input = x * 10^6 dollars)
3. Wheels turn, boxes are filled, shipped to stores and stacked 4. ??? 5. Profit!! Customers rush to stores, buy boxes, hurry home, install software.
(Money output = y * 10^6 dollars)
Since y >> x and y / x >> 1, you should now have an Over-Unity device... What you say? Has already been done? Bwoowoo, there goes my patent claim, ah never mind...
One of the parents is correct that they're likely to just get a warrant, pull your PC/laptop apart and put some kind of wacky hardware keylogger in there instead.
Just use the old trick: Plug the screwholes with beewax, resin or whatever which only you know the consistency of, adding a few of your (pet's) hairs for good measure, and check it regularly. This way, at least you know someone has tampered with your hardware.
Hey you there, maths student! Yes, you! Stop using the symbol Pi in your formulas because it contains copyrighted information. (thinking: And don't you ever go off calculating the decimal expansion of Pi to the bazillionth digit because you will be violating the DMCA by circumventing my copyright prevention scheme.) Stop before i sue you!
Just imagine the looks from the poor chap happily clocking up some mouse-miles when a bunch of governmentt health officials knock down his door demanding that he "TAKE A MICROPAUSE RIGHT NOW!" -- Workrave - Helps relieve the strain on your wrists without straining your wallet.
Copyright infringement is not theft. Copying software does not prevent the creator from having access to the source data, so technically, this cannot be theft. IANAL, but I strongly doubt that anyone of them would call copyright infringement 'theft'. -- Campaigning for the right usage of these terms since well before 2001.
What's it do during the downtime? Well, in case of TCP, the connection will be reset of course, assuming the protocol stack is still up and running and the port has not been 'stealthed' by a firewall, while in case of UDP, the server will 'automagically' 'do the right thing', even if the server hardware is not functioning (or has no electrical power, for that matter). Neat, huh?
...and even if not, they could always exploit some bug or security hole to render the computers controlling that military arsenal (which are running Windows, of course) useless.
If it was a literal Gandhi quote, it would be too easy to detect, wouldn't it? (Think Google, Slashdot search etc.) Of course they're misquoting Gandhi, it is like changing the port numbers for P2P protocols. Next they will think of a polymorphic engine to mess up the quote to evade the virus scanners err..Gandhi quote filters.
...but he'll have to coerce some DHL ppl very quickly to come pick up the suitcase (they can ship anything anywhere, can't they?) before it makes its own way towards the center of the Earth, taking all of us with it...
Uhrm, I hope we limit those past lessons to the network layer and up, leaving the lower layers well enough alone. I wouldn't like to be in a car that gets 'dropped' from the highway after a collision...
>Instead of an "oh shit" expression, how about building cars that crap solid blocks of waste instead of polluting the air? That wouldn't be too nice for those driving behind you, now wouldn't it? (Imagine being hit by a dense chunk of autopoop while doing 70).
>Then pass legislation to make the owners pick their cars crap up and put it in a bin? Imagine people wandering all over the highway panning their motorized pet's excrements-now that would give a whole new meaning to the words 'traffic jam'. Or would it turn into a big (messy) pile-up?
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Not many people consider a purchaser of an SUV to be nuts.
I do. And so do many others.
Well, to protect the Martian environment ofcourse. Would you like to see the whole planet littered with disused rovers because every time some of them fail, another mission drops some new ones onto the planet? Better make them longer-lived.
And by the way, they should send a garbage spacetruck to pick up discarded rovers and have them decommissioned at a recycling plant here on Earth.
Let's start a campaign: Save the Martian environment!
/* FIXME: Breaks portability to older compilers */
Congratulations! You may have just provided the missing essential item for the creation of an Over-Unity Money-Machine!
Let's see, here are what I think are the necessary steps:
1. Software house develops application, creates Gold Master CD.
2. Software house brings Gold Master to CD manufacturer, preprints and box designs to publisher and pays for the production of, say, 200 million copies of said items
(Money input = x * 10^6 dollars)
3. Wheels turn, boxes are filled, shipped to stores and stacked
4. ???
5. Profit!! Customers rush to stores, buy boxes, hurry home, install software.
(Money output = y * 10^6 dollars)
Since y >> x and y / x >> 1, you should now have an Over-Unity device... What you say? Has already been done? Bwoowoo, there goes my patent claim, ah never mind...
Well, if he is selling stamps with that low-pH hallucinogenic stuff on them? Hmmm... but then again I don't want used ones, no thanx.
Just use the old trick: Plug the screwholes with beewax, resin or whatever which only you know the consistency of, adding a few of your (pet's) hairs for good measure, and check it regularly.
This way, at least you know someone has tampered with your hardware.
You need a license plate to prove someone is female? Next you will need the color of the pills she takes to stop aging... err, never mind.
Last summer we rode 6 centuries...
Wow! I want one of those bicycle time machines! Where can I get one?
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Hey you there, maths student! Yes, you! Stop using the symbol Pi in your formulas because it contains copyrighted information. (thinking: And don't you ever go off calculating the decimal expansion of Pi to the bazillionth digit because you will be violating the DMCA by circumventing my copyright prevention scheme.) Stop before i sue you!
Just imagine the looks from the poor chap happily clocking up some mouse-miles when a bunch of governmentt health officials knock down his door demanding that he "TAKE A MICROPAUSE RIGHT NOW!"
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Workrave - Helps relieve the strain on your wrists without straining your wallet.
It has already happened, and it leads to major controversy.
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Nothing new here, move along...
No wonder the terro^H^H^H^Hbad guys know how and where to get the good stuff, though maybe with a little help from the 'inside'.
Copyright infringement is not theft.
Copying software does not prevent the creator from having access to the source data, so technically, this cannot be theft. IANAL, but I strongly doubt that anyone of them would call copyright infringement 'theft'.
--
Campaigning for the right usage of these terms since well before 2001.
What's it do during the downtime?
Well, in case of TCP, the connection will be reset of course, assuming the protocol stack is still up and running and the port has not been 'stealthed' by a firewall, while in case of UDP, the server will 'automagically' 'do the right thing', even if the server hardware is not functioning (or has no electrical power, for that matter). Neat, huh?
With all the pedantry whooshing around, let us at least try to get the man's name right: W. Richard Stevens (not Stenvens or Stephens).
...and even if not, they could always exploit some bug or security hole to render the computers controlling that military arsenal (which are running Windows, of course) useless.
8. ???
9. Profit!
If it was a literal Gandhi quote, it would be too easy to detect, wouldn't it? (Think Google, Slashdot search etc.)
Of course they're misquoting Gandhi, it is like changing the port numbers for P2P protocols. Next they will think of a polymorphic engine to mess up the quote to evade the virus scanners err..Gandhi quote filters.
...Oh my god they killed Kenny. You bastards!
...but he'll have to coerce some DHL ppl very quickly to come pick up the suitcase (they can ship anything anywhere, can't they?) before it makes its own way towards the center of the Earth, taking all of us with it...
in Soviet Russia, Lock Picks U.
Uhrm, I hope we limit those past lessons to the network layer and up, leaving the lower layers well enough alone. I wouldn't like to be in a car that gets 'dropped' from the highway after a collision...
a Beowulf cluster of those...err, never mind.
>Instead of an "oh shit" expression, how about building cars that crap solid blocks of waste instead of polluting the air?
That wouldn't be too nice for those driving behind you, now wouldn't it? (Imagine being hit by a dense chunk of autopoop while doing 70).
>Then pass legislation to make the owners pick their cars crap up and put it in a bin?
Imagine people wandering all over the highway panning their motorized pet's excrements-now that would give a whole new meaning to the words 'traffic jam'. Or would it turn into a big (messy) pile-up?