Throwing millions of dollars at a film doesn't stop it sucking ass.
If the filesharing doors were truly thrown open, then you could still make a big budget film and make money on it. How? By controlling the supply. Sell tickets in advance for 'jaws 5' and start filming when you have got $90,000,000.
Are they hell 'far better'! Before you kids with your fancy schmancy satellites we got things like "maybe it will rain tomorrow", now we get "OMFG! Global Climate Change! We are all doomed because of that evil Bush and his Nazi Republican party!". 'far better' my ass!
How about letting people use their handheld phones while driving IF they have disabled their airbags, antilock brakes and seatbelts? That way, if we are to believe that cell phone users crash constantly, they will take themselves out of the gene pool? Ditto speeding. Allow speeding if all safety devices are disabled.
Hey, that's what i found when i was trying to set up a shared directory for multiple users on a friend's xp box.
"Yeah, well as admin i make a new folder called sharedstuff, then we share it and set non admin people to read only.....er....where's the dialog?....erm.....it must be in user accounts....er....where is it?.....wtf?....."
Can anyone point to any research on the (in)effectiveness of advertising? I am sure the advertising emperor has no clothes. I see the same ads over and over again and never buy any of the products. Come to think about it, I don't think I buy anything that I see adverts for.
As a tinpot dictator of some godforsaken hellhole I welcome this idea wholeheartedly.
1. Get grant from U.N. for computers 'to help educate the poor or my backward nation'.
2. Buy the $100 laptoppy edumacational thingies.
3. Sell them all on ebay to first world geeks to make picture frames out of.
4. Profit, for me to stick in my Swiss account!
Whenever i fill up my hard disk, or need to change the batteries in the mouse, or some spam sneaks past the filter, or the dvd drive can't read a disk, or the dhcp is acting up, or a process won't shut down, or the cat treads on the keyboard, or someone has turned the audio up to max for a laugh, or any other annoyance that disturbs my geeking, I invariably scream "If only the case were slightly smaller!!!".
Have I really? And how should one deal with a parent that is happy to sell their children into sex slavery, then? And what should these abusive family members do?
You forgot to mention that it doesn't even work very well. The playing of media that is, the mal/adware chunk is probably the part they put most coding effort into.
This really is much simpler than you make it seem.
If you want to have some kind of sexual interaction with a minor then just contact their parent/guardian , explain the situation, and arrange a time to pick up their ward. They (the parents/guardians) are responsible for the child so if you don't think you are doing( or rather want to be doing ) anything unethical or detrimental to the child, they are the ones to get in touch with first as it is their call, not yours or the child's.
Never mind this crap, how much power can I get from all these transmitters that are clogging the spectrum? Surely i need only a lot of lumps of wire and a few diodes?
Then maybe you just need to practice more. I can assure you it is possible to operate stereo controls and indeed other electronic gadgets without positioning them in front of your face.
Look, Eve can neither forward nor forge encoded messages without causing a discrepancy between the messages Bob and Alice send each other. Hence Eve cannot TRANSPARENTLY sit in the middle of the quantum link. The authentication is a red herring since this is a point to point system. Bob can send instructions to Alice that depend upon timing of message receipt. Eve must generate what she thinks Alice would have responded if she had got the messages.
Instead of the man in the middle reading the communications you have a man in the middle generating communications to two parties.
Okay, so Eve archives all encrypted stuff from either party until a key is received so that the contents can be acted upon. This means that the man in the middle has to create and support a convincing charade for each party while Bob and Alice have diverting 'realities'. The key might not be sent for weeks. Until the key is sent, Bob must be convinced that the message arrived because this is supposed to be a secure channel. Both parties must be reassured about any timing errors introduced by Eve's holding of messages.
"Having someone else act on your behalf, regardless of age, is the same as you doing it yourself"
Then how come drunk taxi passengers aren't charged with DUI?
Pay by cheque. Write on the back of the cheque "By accepting my money you absolve me from complying with your EULA which I must 'accept' to use the product".
Sauce for the goose.........
Doh! Eve would have to impersonate both Alice and Bob for every data transaction on every channel. Any channel that Eve cannot sit in the middle of will reveal that eve is in the middle of the quantum channel.
Bob encrypts a message and sends it to Alice. What does Eve do? She can't read the message because Bob hasn't sent the key yet. Either she forwards it to Alice or she 'loses' it. Later, Bob sends the key for the message, now she reads the message "here are my quantum settings, Alice, do they check out?". Does she forward the key and let Alice figure out the quantum channel is compromised? Or 'lose' this too? Lost messages mean there is someone tampering, so Eve must pretend to BE Alice rather than just tapping into Alice's comms. This is much easier to detect.
I would like to region code my money so that it cannot be used outside my home country. What's that? currency exchanges? I am sorry, but by accepting my payment you agree to the EULA on my cheque which forbids you from exchanging, transferring or otherwise distributing my money. You can keep my money but cannot transfer it to someone else. I also have a huge list of restrictions on how you can store and play with my money. There, that's fair isn't it?
AFAIK nasa experimented with this for operating stuff while under high g loading. Worked fine, except that people glance at things all the time. You could set it so that you need to stare at the icon for a time to trigger it, but I don't fancy that while driving.
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Throwing millions of dollars at a film doesn't stop it sucking ass.
If the filesharing doors were truly thrown open, then you could still make a big budget film and make money on it. How? By controlling the supply. Sell tickets in advance for 'jaws 5' and start filming when you have got $90,000,000.
In the schools i went to, a device such as this would have been stolen within minutes by the next student to use the computer.
Are they hell 'far better'! Before you kids with your fancy schmancy satellites we got things like "maybe it will rain tomorrow", now we get "OMFG! Global Climate Change! We are all doomed because of that evil Bush and his Nazi Republican party!".
'far better' my ass!
How about letting people use their handheld phones while driving IF they have disabled their airbags, antilock brakes and seatbelts? That way, if we are to believe that cell phone users crash constantly, they will take themselves out of the gene pool? Ditto speeding. Allow speeding if all safety devices are disabled.
Hey, that's what i found when i was trying to set up a shared directory for multiple users on a friend's xp box. "Yeah, well as admin i make a new folder called sharedstuff, then we share it and set non admin people to read only.....er....where's the dialog?....erm.....it must be in user accounts....er....where is it?.....wtf?....."
Can anyone point to any research on the (in)effectiveness of advertising? I am sure the advertising emperor has no clothes. I see the same ads over and over again and never buy any of the products. Come to think about it, I don't think I buy anything that I see adverts for.
As a tinpot dictator of some godforsaken hellhole I welcome this idea wholeheartedly.
1. Get grant from U.N. for computers 'to help educate the poor or my backward nation'.
2. Buy the $100 laptoppy edumacational thingies.
3. Sell them all on ebay to first world geeks to make picture frames out of.
4. Profit, for me to stick in my Swiss account!
Whenever i fill up my hard disk, or need to change the batteries in the mouse, or some spam sneaks past the filter, or the dvd drive can't read a disk, or the dhcp is acting up, or a process won't shut down, or the cat treads on the keyboard, or someone has turned the audio up to max for a laugh, or any other annoyance that disturbs my geeking, I invariably scream "If only the case were slightly smaller!!!".
Have I really? And how should one deal with a parent that is happy to sell their children into sex slavery, then? And what should these abusive family members do?
You forgot to mention that it doesn't even work very well. The playing of media that is, the mal/adware chunk is probably the part they put most coding effort into.
This really is much simpler than you make it seem.
If you want to have some kind of sexual interaction with a minor then just contact their parent/guardian , explain the situation, and arrange a time to pick up their ward.
They (the parents/guardians) are responsible for the child so if you don't think you are doing( or rather want to be doing ) anything unethical or detrimental to the child, they are the ones to get in touch with first as it is their call, not yours or the child's.
Never mind this crap, how much power can I get from all these transmitters that are clogging the spectrum? Surely i need only a lot of lumps of wire and a few diodes?
I'm not a believer, I just don't agree with you :-)
It is going nowhere, but thanks for the discussion
bye
Then maybe you just need to practice more. I can assure you it is possible to operate stereo controls and indeed other electronic gadgets without positioning them in front of your face.
Look, Eve can neither forward nor forge encoded messages without causing a discrepancy between the messages Bob and Alice send each other. Hence Eve cannot TRANSPARENTLY sit in the middle of the quantum link. The authentication is a red herring since this is a point to point system. Bob can send instructions to Alice that depend upon timing of message receipt. Eve must generate what she thinks Alice would have responded if she had got the messages.
Instead of the man in the middle reading the communications you have a man in the middle generating communications to two parties.
Okay, so Eve archives all encrypted stuff from either party until a key is received so that the contents can be acted upon. This means that the man in the middle has to create and support a convincing charade for each party while Bob and Alice have diverting 'realities'. The key might not be sent for weeks. Until the key is sent, Bob must be convinced that the message arrived because this is supposed to be a secure channel. Both parties must be reassured about any timing errors introduced by Eve's holding of messages.
"Having someone else act on your behalf, regardless of age, is the same as you doing it yourself"
Then how come drunk taxi passengers aren't charged with DUI?
Pay by cheque. Write on the back of the cheque "By accepting my money you absolve me from complying with your EULA which I must 'accept' to use the product".
Sauce for the goose.........
Doh! Eve would have to impersonate both Alice and Bob for every data transaction on every channel. Any channel that Eve cannot sit in the middle of will reveal that eve is in the middle of the quantum channel. Bob encrypts a message and sends it to Alice. What does Eve do? She can't read the message because Bob hasn't sent the key yet. Either she forwards it to Alice or she 'loses' it. Later, Bob sends the key for the message, now she reads the message "here are my quantum settings, Alice, do they check out?". Does she forward the key and let Alice figure out the quantum channel is compromised? Or 'lose' this too? Lost messages mean there is someone tampering, so Eve must pretend to BE Alice rather than just tapping into Alice's comms. This is much easier to detect.
I would like to region code my money so that it cannot be used outside my home country. What's that? currency exchanges? I am sorry, but by accepting my payment you agree to the EULA on my cheque which forbids you from exchanging, transferring or otherwise distributing my money. You can keep my money but cannot transfer it to someone else. I also have a huge list of restrictions on how you can store and play with my money. There, that's fair isn't it?
Are you serious? Do you look at your foot to find the brake pedal when those pesky kids jump out? Do you look at the indicator stalk when you signal?
AFAIK nasa experimented with this for operating stuff while under high g loading. Worked fine, except that people glance at things all the time. You could set it so that you need to stare at the icon for a time to trigger it, but I don't fancy that while driving.
Government scrap pensions.
You're under 25, right?
Bearing surfaces wear, some parts are plastic, rather than elastic, teeth erode etc
Can I take it you are a frustrated artist?