Frankly, my only concern is that I'm allowed to use my open source MythTV box with a CableCard in order to record shows off encrypted QAM channels like Discovery HD. Currently, I cannot do this due to the ridiculous certified media center PC and Vista requirement. If anyone knows a way around this, please tell me. The analog cutoff is looming and I don't want to lose my recording ability.
You do realize you have a better chance of growing wings and learning to fly than the cable companies EVER agreeing to a system that will let you do that, don't you? DRM and open source don't go well together and the number one priority of the cable companies is their ability to control what you watch and how you watch it. DRM is FAR more important to them than the quality of their programming or the wants of their customers.
My family owns a couple of businesses, when an employee gives notice -- we say -- thanks, the good news is you can start your new job early. Security escorts them out, problem solved.
They give notice, you respond by firing them. In many instances, you're going to pay for their unemployment benefits now. Not to mention, if you have important employees who you would LIKE to get notice from if they decide to leave, they're much less likely to give you notice now since they know of your previous behavior.
I have Comcast's advertised 8 Mbps service and I very consistently get that downloading large files off of Usenet. I get about 25 Mbps for the first 20-30 seconds after I start a download.
The Church of Scientology is a cult. Plain and simple. However - that's probably just fine as long as they don't start screwing up the lives of other people.
If you do a bit of research, you'll find that it's way, way, way, way, way, way, WAY too late for them to not screw up the lives of other people.
If you do something which I judge to be asshole-ish behavior, I'm within my rights to say "Hey, vidarh is an asshole." I'm also well within my rights to stand up, in public, point my finger at you, in public, as say "That guy, vidarh, is an asshole." I can also say, in public, "The following are reasons why vidarh is an asshole..." Now, if the next thing I say is true, there is no problem. If I say "because he has sex with 8 year olds," then I'm in trouble, unless you actually do have sex with 8 year olds.
The parent was DEAD ON. If you want to engage in behavior so utterly repugnant that your life would be put in danger if people found out about it, don't whine when people find out about it. If you don't want people to know that you masqueraded as a teenage boy online for no reason WHAT-SO-FUCKING-EVER than to TORMENT a 13 year old girl, how about YOU DON'T FUCKING DO IT.
This is not a case of mistaken identity or false accusations. The people publishing the information have EVERY right to let the public know about what a COMPLETE and TOTAL waste of oxygen this woman is. This woman makes the smarmiest personal injury lawyer look like a saint.
Well, that's all well and good, until you realize how much taxpayer money is being wasted on frivolous lawsuits such as this. Then, it's not so amusing anymore.
But - if those systems were your responsibility - what would it take you to satisfy the people you report to that there was no damage? How many hours of review, extra archiving, and other admin chores would you face in the wake of known break in? Do you just take the cracker's word for it that he didn't alter anything, or do you have to spend lots of time checking that out, and probably get some third parties involved in auditing that look-see, just to be sure? None of that is free, and most of it's very expensive.
If I'm remembering this case correctly, the box he supposedly "hacked" into was left connected to the internet with NO security login whatsoever.
If I'm in charge of a system containing classified information and discover such a blunder, I'm going to follow EXACTLY the same procedures regardless of whether I know of a "break in" or not, because I'm going to assume everything on the box is compromised until I can prove otherwise.
They're really quite lucky that this guy, apparantly, was only snooping around and not looking to do anything malicious. The next guy who found it might not have been so benign.
But then, if you posted someplace that NeoCons are total whackjobs that need massive amounts of medication to make them sane again, you're likely to get arrested for revealing state secrets...
I thought it had more to do with the computer fudging the randomness of the virtual cards or informing the computer player thread of my cards.
But that's why you should only play against people, not the casino's machines.
to me, computer poker machines == slot machines
Those video poker machines ARE essentially slot machines. There is no random element to them and they are heavily regulated as to the exact amount of money they pay out compared to what they take in.
On a free forum to which you have paid nothing this makes sense, but I'd imagine the students pay some quite hefty fees to the university in the expectation of receiving full access to all services for their money. Not to mention that as a public university, much of their funding comes at taxpayer expense.
I think it's not so much of an issue of if the COULD increase production, but, rather, if they SHOULD increase production. Let's say there's currently a demand for X units a month. That number is certainly going to go down over the next year as the people who have been looking since launch finally get one.
Say Nintendo anticipates demand a year from now to be Y units a month and their current production is Z units a month. Any increase in Z now is going to have an additional cost associated with it...additional labor costs, machinery cost, and possibly additional real estate cost. If Z now is greater than Y, any additional money spent now to increase production is going to be of very little benifit once the supply catches up to the demand. And the shortages aren't exactly bad publicity for them as the Wii continues to be a HOT item even over half a year after its release.
I'm sorry...there's no chemical dependency associated with alcoholism? You're dead wrong and you must not have been paying much attention in your father's case. Alcohol is one of the only (frequently abused) drugs where the physical withdrawl can actually KILL you.
You may call me crazy, but I don't believe in any restrictions whatsoever.
Well, I won't call you crazy, but I have to ask...do you believe in any restrictions whatsoever in the first amendment? I won't call you crazy, I might call you a hypocrite, though. Nowhere in the first ammendment do the words "unless" or "except" appear not even when your actions infringe on the rights of others.
So, in your interpret-the-bill-of-rights-as-rigidly-as-possibl e-without-a-hint-of-common-sense world, is it OK for me to shout fire in a crowded theater? Publish any type of pornography I want to including child porn? Here's a good one...fire my Constitutionally protected weapon anytime and anywhere I want to even though I'm fully aware that someone's head is directly in front of the barrell?
Powerful weapons are cost-prohibitive...so what? You think Bill Gates couldn't afford a nuclear missle on the open market? You would support his "right" to possess a weapon that could indiscriminately kill millions of people?
Microsoft never would have done anything but the piss-poor dog-slow search they had previously.
As much as I hate to defend MS here...
the search in XP is actually not bad...it's every bit as fast as on the *nix boxes we have at work.
But I should mention something in regards to that...the IDIOTS who, immediately after installing XP go to that BlackViper site and follow his directions like they're the word of $DEITY, deserve to have suck-ass search speed. That guy is a great example of someone who knows just enough to be dangerous, but not not nearly enough to have half a clue about what he's talking about.
I know Disciple Viper has told you that the XP indexing service is "useless" and that it's the VERY FIRST THING he disables on some poor n00b's XP install. The fact of the matter is, the indexing service is a GREAT thing to disable...provided that you NEVER want to search for ANYTHING on your computer EVER.
"X" is no longer an official MPAA rating. It was abandoned when NC-17 was introduced mainly because it WAS associated with porn. Of course, thanks to the "masterpiece" which was the first widely released NC-17 movie, Showgirls, and the accompanied protests by religious groups, NC-17 movies are closely associated with "pornographic" content and the end result is pretty much the same as before.
If I was stealing AUS shit, yes, I'd expect to be prosecuted by the AUSsies. There's a simple cure to the problem -- don't fucking STEAL SHIT !!! If you can't do the time, don't do the crime - don't do it !!
So, if you broke Chinese law, by criticizing the Chinese government, you'd expect to be extradited and prosecuted by the Chinese???
There's a simple cure to the problem -- don't fucking CRITICIZE CHINA!!! If you can't do the time, don't do the crime - don't do it!!
My employer requires me to write computer code or I'll be terminated. Those bastards. I had no idea they would expect me to do something for them when they hired me. And I can never, ever quit and find another job if I don't like it.
I suspect ICANN will once again nip it in the bud because politicians will merely shout hysterically and lecture piously and pass the hot potato on to someone else. ICANN does not even want to start figuring out the things you mention, and it is unclear who would. Therefore, bam! goes the gavel again: rejected!
And the domain registrars, who are the ones pushing this because it would be a big cash cow for them, will just submit it again.
It will get rejected again, and they'll submit it again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
They only have to manage to get it approved ONCE and, sooner or later, they will.
I like to gamble. Sportsbooks, cards, and the occasional craps or roulette, doesn't matter. But I wouldn't just wager a non-trivial amount of money on a game where I had NO CLUE whatsoever what the rules were. And if I ever did have a bout of collossal stupidity where I did so, I certainly wouldn't whine and cry about wanting the money back if I lost.
If people want to publish something for FULL PUBLIC access on the internet, it's their resonsibilty to find out the way the internet works. Most people couldn't care less, but if you think that what you're posting has actual VALUE, then it's your own negligence that's causing you harm. That "higher geek voodoo" is the way the internet functions a.k.a. the "rules of the game." This is like the idiots that post pictures of their pot plants on Myspace, then complain that their rights have been violated when the cops find them.
Now, I'll agree completely that the Internet Archive is probably on pretty shakey legal ground at best by republishing other people's content. But it seems that the bulk of this woman's complaints boiled down to "you spidered my site, gimme money."
There are a few people in this thread that seem like the type of people who would accept a dinner invitation, then bitch about the menu and demand the host cook them something else.
Yeah. If you deliberately leaving your wireless open to give yourself deniability results in my computers getting subpoenaed just because I live next door, you better believe I'm going to be offering my testimony to the prosecution. And I'm going to say you bragged to me about committing the crime even if I've never spoken to you in my life.
When they are asked to take stuff down, they do. Beyond that, they have no obligations to police the shit out of the site.
The only problem is that they already do "police the shit out of the site." Upload porn onto Youtube and see how long it lasts. Google has shown that they are fully capable of removing unwanted content on their own. The thing is, they don't really WANT to remove the copyrighted content because they know it's valuable to their business.
Of course, IANAL, but I suspect this is what is going to be the big problem for Google.
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Given what seems to be popular these days, I'm more shocked that it isn't
I have Comcast's advertised 8 Mbps service and I very consistently get that downloading large files off of Usenet. I get about 25 Mbps for the first 20-30 seconds after I start a download.
If you do a bit of research, you'll find that it's way, way, way, way, way, way, WAY too late for them to not screw up the lives of other people.
And YOU have forgotten "freedom of speech"
If you do something which I judge to be asshole-ish behavior, I'm within my rights to say "Hey, vidarh is an asshole." I'm also well within my rights to stand up, in public, point my finger at you, in public, as say "That guy, vidarh, is an asshole." I can also say, in public, "The following are reasons why vidarh is an asshole..." Now, if the next thing I say is true, there is no problem. If I say "because he has sex with 8 year olds," then I'm in trouble, unless you actually do have sex with 8 year olds.
The parent was DEAD ON. If you want to engage in behavior so utterly repugnant that your life would be put in danger if people found out about it, don't whine when people find out about it. If you don't want people to know that you masqueraded as a teenage boy online for no reason WHAT-SO-FUCKING-EVER than to TORMENT a 13 year old girl, how about YOU DON'T FUCKING DO IT.
This is not a case of mistaken identity or false accusations. The people publishing the information have EVERY right to let the public know about what a COMPLETE and TOTAL waste of oxygen this woman is. This woman makes the smarmiest personal injury lawyer look like a saint.
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Well, that's all well and good, until you realize how much taxpayer money is being wasted on frivolous lawsuits such as this. Then, it's not so amusing anymore.
Yes, you think this is a great idea. We get it. EVERY SINGLE POST you make is plugging the PS3. Cut it out, you aren't fooling anyone here, shill.
I think it's not so much of an issue of if the COULD increase production, but, rather, if they SHOULD increase production. Let's say there's currently a demand for X units a month. That number is certainly going to go down over the next year as the people who have been looking since launch finally get one.
Say Nintendo anticipates demand a year from now to be Y units a month and their current production is Z units a month. Any increase in Z now is going to have an additional cost associated with it...additional labor costs, machinery cost, and possibly additional real estate cost. If Z now is greater than Y, any additional money spent now to increase production is going to be of very little benifit once the supply catches up to the demand. And the shortages aren't exactly bad publicity for them as the Wii continues to be a HOT item even over half a year after its release.
I'm sorry...there's no chemical dependency associated with alcoholism? You're dead wrong and you must not have been paying much attention in your father's case. Alcohol is one of the only (frequently abused) drugs where the physical withdrawl can actually KILL you.
You may call me crazy, but I don't believe in any restrictions whatsoever.
l e-without-a-hint-of-common-sense world, is it OK for me to shout fire in a crowded theater? Publish any type of pornography I want to including child porn? Here's a good one...fire my Constitutionally protected weapon anytime and anywhere I want to even though I'm fully aware that someone's head is directly in front of the barrell?
Well, I won't call you crazy, but I have to ask...do you believe in any restrictions whatsoever in the first amendment? I won't call you crazy, I might call you a hypocrite, though. Nowhere in the first ammendment do the words "unless" or "except" appear not even when your actions infringe on the rights of others.
So, in your interpret-the-bill-of-rights-as-rigidly-as-possib
Powerful weapons are cost-prohibitive...so what? You think Bill Gates couldn't afford a nuclear missle on the open market? You would support his "right" to possess a weapon that could indiscriminately kill millions of people?
Crazy? No, you aren't crazy. You're an idiot.
the search in XP is actually not bad...it's every bit as fast as on the *nix boxes we have at work.
But I should mention something in regards to that...the IDIOTS who, immediately after installing XP go to that BlackViper site and follow his directions like they're the word of $DEITY, deserve to have suck-ass search speed. That guy is a great example of someone who knows just enough to be dangerous, but not not nearly enough to have half a clue about what he's talking about.
I know Disciple Viper has told you that the XP indexing service is "useless" and that it's the VERY FIRST THING he disables on some poor n00b's XP install. The fact of the matter is, the indexing service is a GREAT thing to disable...provided that you NEVER want to search for ANYTHING on your computer EVER.
"X" is no longer an official MPAA rating. It was abandoned when NC-17 was introduced mainly because it WAS associated with porn. Of course, thanks to the "masterpiece" which was the first widely released NC-17 movie, Showgirls, and the accompanied protests by religious groups, NC-17 movies are closely associated with "pornographic" content and the end result is pretty much the same as before.
That certainly has never stopped the Patent Office before.
My employer requires me to write computer code or I'll be terminated. Those bastards. I had no idea they would expect me to do something for them when they hired me. And I can never, ever quit and find another job if I don't like it.
It will get rejected again, and they'll submit it again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
They only have to manage to get it approved ONCE and, sooner or later, they will.
I like to gamble. Sportsbooks, cards, and the occasional craps or roulette, doesn't matter. But I wouldn't just wager a non-trivial amount of money on a game where I had NO CLUE whatsoever what the rules were. And if I ever did have a bout of collossal stupidity where I did so, I certainly wouldn't whine and cry about wanting the money back if I lost.
If people want to publish something for FULL PUBLIC access on the internet, it's their resonsibilty to find out the way the internet works. Most people couldn't care less, but if you think that what you're posting has actual VALUE, then it's your own negligence that's causing you harm. That "higher geek voodoo" is the way the internet functions a.k.a. the "rules of the game." This is like the idiots that post pictures of their pot plants on Myspace, then complain that their rights have been violated when the cops find them.
Now, I'll agree completely that the Internet Archive is probably on pretty shakey legal ground at best by republishing other people's content. But it seems that the bulk of this woman's complaints boiled down to "you spidered my site, gimme money."
There are a few people in this thread that seem like the type of people who would accept a dinner invitation, then bitch about the menu and demand the host cook them something else.
Yeah. If you deliberately leaving your wireless open to give yourself deniability results in my computers getting subpoenaed just because I live next door, you better believe I'm going to be offering my testimony to the prosecution. And I'm going to say you bragged to me about committing the crime even if I've never spoken to you in my life.
Of course, IANAL, but I suspect this is what is going to be the big problem for Google.