I think you're confusing MS with Apple. MS service packs are free, it's the Mac ones you need to rebuy the OS for. Even for free, though, dealing with all the new anomalies a service pack generates every 6 months rather than every 2-3 years would be kind of a pain.
Really, because the penalty for using a howitzer or a nuke in anger is so much greater than that for possession of a controlled firearm, all's a ban on citizen ownership of such things does is ensure that another revolution will never happen. Now, that's a pretty extreme example, because somebody using their personal howitzer is going tocan result in large amounts of death and property damage.
In the case of free speach, the worst case scenario is to cause a panic in a crowded place. But that's not even the kind of speach that they're talking about restricting here. What is being restricted is saying "I disagree with the way things are" in a public forum. Certainly, the examples brought forward are a combination of terrorists saying "topple the government!" and the klan saying "death to other people!", but the truth is that it's a step towards stopping "vote against the incumbent".
The difference is that MS didn't spend extra effort making sure that Vista requires a PC to run. In this case, they *did* go to extra effort making the product less useful, by making it check if it's inside a VM.
Now, as a security feature, it would be nice if their magical "I'm in a VM" detector would pop up a warning, to prevent those virtualization attacks you hear about every so often where a rootkit takes over hypervisor capabilities.
If there are penalties for refusing the test, you don't have a right to. That's like saying I have a right to shoot people in the face, there's just a penalty if I do.
What no one ever specifies is what happens if you pass the more accurate test back at the station. You've just been arrested and held for something you didn't do, but there is no repercussion for the people who arrested you and no reparation to you for the time and the stress. Surely, there are cases where someone looks legitimately impared and is not, but at the same time there needs to be a provision to prevent abuse.
My big question is, how do you get the cold sink on a laptop? Are we putting this device between the CPU and the cooling aparatus? It seems like the thermal gradient there is a little small to be of much use.
The issue isn't that he was being removed by the police, it's that they tasered him 5 times. Apparently he was resisting their instructions to show ID or leave. It then looked like he got combative (the angle in the video is pretty poor). Ok, so they taser him, fair play. But now he's down on the floor in pain, and they keep tasering him telling him to get up. Sure, he's screaming like a crazy person, but he's no longer a danger to anyone (unless you count his politically motivated statements as being dangerous to the state). The nice thing about tasers is that most of the time (provided you didn't kill the guy with it), you can sit down and talk once the person is incapacitated, rather than rush them to an emergency room.
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Never said I was in favor of tax cuts. I'm in favor of taxing each in accordance to his means for the support of the government. The middle-class socialists would be a lot less eager to promote their programs if they actually had to front the money.
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What I find interesting is that they sell 3 other models of blue laser, at $2500, $3000, and $3500 depending on power (the bluray one falls in has the same power as the $2500 one and a shorter wavelength). Apparently, pulling the laser from home theater equipment is the *cheap* way to get a blue laser diode these days.
The issue here is that not only was the vote count innaccurate, but there are only 80 residents of the town. From the article, only 36 residents voted in the mayoral election. 1 vote in 100M might be insigificant, but 1 in 36 most certainly is.
The way the system works is that half of all votes ARE switched. Half of all people (on average) who vote for candidate A check the left box, the other half check the right box. Which box the candidate appears in is random.
On the other hand, isn't there a law in US that prohibits saying "the president sucks" under threat of imprisonment as a terrorist?
The Alien and Sedition Act expired at the turn of the 19th century, and has largely been found unconstitutional in any case. The tricky bit is that in modern times, there's a general consensus that "terrorists have no rights" without a very clear indication of what a terrorist is exactly, or the due process that transfers a citizen to terrorist status.
If it's so trivial, what's the problem with putting a "burn to MP3" button up there next to "burn to CD"? Somehow, I don't think it's Steve Jobs' holdings of Memorex stock.
Yes, because iTunes should keep a backup for you in perpetuity because your an idiot.
iTMS already has a 'backup'; the server-side copy that they're selling to everyone else. And you'd be a fool not to believe that they archive every single user's buying history (Heck, probably even what songs you sample) for marketing/later resale. All's that missing is a connection between the two (which, given other posts in this thread, apparently already exists if you call in person to ask for it).
Same goes to the douche who thinks "CFCs are too heavy to get into the Stratosphere". I'm not going to bother to explain that one to you.
Actually, I'd really like to hear an explanation. I'm not going to claim to know anything about CFC's, but if these gases really are heavier than air and don't readily mix with air, how exactly does a bucket of them in my back yard elevate itself to the upper atmosphere?
There are some transactions that result in no real movement of money. I work for my employer, who pays me via direct deposit. Their bank balance goes down and mine goes up (all on a computer somewher). I go and buy a song off iTunes, paying with my credit card (all electronic). I pay the bill via my bank's web site, again, an electronic transaction.
You could also play WoW, which tracks your gold stash in a computer somewhere. You can farm some gold, changing a number in a database, much like the direct deposit transaction. You can then go and buy an item somewhere, again via an electronic transaction.
Assuming that I was telecommuting to my job, the only difference between that and WoW is that Visual Studio and Eclipse don't have such shiney graphics.
Obviously, there should be some sort of distinction created, because to the educated observer one is a game and the other a job.
I'd also like a "bloated" browser as well, full of plugins that are considered useful, carefully maintained, and also checked to make sure they all work well together.
Does Iceweasel even send a different UserAgent string? I thought the only alteration was to remove the trademarked portions of FF, and I presume no one was asinine enough to trademark the user agent...
The general figure for the number of illegal immigrants living in the US is 10 million. Out of a population of 300 million, that's 3.3%. I hardly think that by exploiting that small slice of the population we can reap greater rewards than countries where 100% of the population can be exploited. If US labor were cheap, our jobs wouldn't be hemmoraging overseas.
Copyright protection is granted under the assumption that one day the work will be released to the public domain (yes, I know, that hasn't *really* happened in like a hundred years). Given that, I think it is reasonable to expect that a non-DRM'd version of a work be placed in escrow pending the expiration of the copyright in order to receive protection. Sure, there's some overhead that someone (I'd like to see copyright holders) would have to cover, but I'm not too psyched about the extra cost of DVD-CSS and RPC-II licensing on my DVD players, either.
The device is actually nowhere near the processor. He took the innards of an Ionic Breeze, built a shielded box around them, and put them up front where you normally have your drive cages. The only mod to the processor heatsink was a grounding strap.
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I think you're confusing MS with Apple. MS service packs are free, it's the Mac ones you need to rebuy the OS for. Even for free, though, dealing with all the new anomalies a service pack generates every 6 months rather than every 2-3 years would be kind of a pain.
Really, because the penalty for using a howitzer or a nuke in anger is so much greater than that for possession of a controlled firearm, all's a ban on citizen ownership of such things does is ensure that another revolution will never happen. Now, that's a pretty extreme example, because somebody using their personal howitzer is going tocan result in large amounts of death and property damage.
In the case of free speach, the worst case scenario is to cause a panic in a crowded place. But that's not even the kind of speach that they're talking about restricting here. What is being restricted is saying "I disagree with the way things are" in a public forum. Certainly, the examples brought forward are a combination of terrorists saying "topple the government!" and the klan saying "death to other people!", but the truth is that it's a step towards stopping "vote against the incumbent".
The difference is that MS didn't spend extra effort making sure that Vista requires a PC to run. In this case, they *did* go to extra effort making the product less useful, by making it check if it's inside a VM.
Now, as a security feature, it would be nice if their magical "I'm in a VM" detector would pop up a warning, to prevent those virtualization attacks you hear about every so often where a rootkit takes over hypervisor capabilities.
If there are penalties for refusing the test, you don't have a right to. That's like saying I have a right to shoot people in the face, there's just a penalty if I do.
What no one ever specifies is what happens if you pass the more accurate test back at the station. You've just been arrested and held for something you didn't do, but there is no repercussion for the people who arrested you and no reparation to you for the time and the stress. Surely, there are cases where someone looks legitimately impared and is not, but at the same time there needs to be a provision to prevent abuse.
My big question is, how do you get the cold sink on a laptop? Are we putting this device between the CPU and the cooling aparatus? It seems like the thermal gradient there is a little small to be of much use.
The issue isn't that he was being removed by the police, it's that they tasered him 5 times. Apparently he was resisting their instructions to show ID or leave. It then looked like he got combative (the angle in the video is pretty poor). Ok, so they taser him, fair play. But now he's down on the floor in pain, and they keep tasering him telling him to get up. Sure, he's screaming like a crazy person, but he's no longer a danger to anyone (unless you count his politically motivated statements as being dangerous to the state). The nice thing about tasers is that most of the time (provided you didn't kill the guy with it), you can sit down and talk once the person is incapacitated, rather than rush them to an emergency room.
Never said I was in favor of tax cuts. I'm in favor of taxing each in accordance to his means for the support of the government. The middle-class socialists would be a lot less eager to promote their programs if they actually had to front the money.
What I find interesting is that they sell 3 other models of blue laser, at $2500, $3000, and $3500 depending on power (the bluray one falls in has the same power as the $2500 one and a shorter wavelength). Apparently, pulling the laser from home theater equipment is the *cheap* way to get a blue laser diode these days.
The issue here is that not only was the vote count innaccurate, but there are only 80 residents of the town. From the article, only 36 residents voted in the mayoral election. 1 vote in 100M might be insigificant, but 1 in 36 most certainly is.
Candidates in 5 races? Pah! Try candidates in 300+ races: http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/2006gen sby.htm
The way the system works is that half of all votes ARE switched. Half of all people (on average) who vote for candidate A check the left box, the other half check the right box. Which box the candidate appears in is random.
Nothing to worry about? I see giant slabs of concrete wall falling on people ...
Zero-day is for people unwilling to go a month before tech support takes their calls: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:Windows_XP_FC KGW.jpg
What tactile feeling is there on any of the touch sensitive clickwheels (ie, everything for the past few generations)?
On the other hand, isn't there a law in US that prohibits saying "the president sucks" under threat of imprisonment as a terrorist?
The Alien and Sedition Act expired at the turn of the 19th century, and has largely been found unconstitutional in any case. The tricky bit is that in modern times, there's a general consensus that "terrorists have no rights" without a very clear indication of what a terrorist is exactly, or the due process that transfers a citizen to terrorist status.
If it's so trivial, what's the problem with putting a "burn to MP3" button up there next to "burn to CD"? Somehow, I don't think it's Steve Jobs' holdings of Memorex stock.
Yes, because iTunes should keep a backup for you in perpetuity because your an idiot.
iTMS already has a 'backup'; the server-side copy that they're selling to everyone else. And you'd be a fool not to believe that they archive every single user's buying history (Heck, probably even what songs you sample) for marketing/later resale. All's that missing is a connection between the two (which, given other posts in this thread, apparently already exists if you call in person to ask for it).
Same goes to the douche who thinks "CFCs are too heavy to get into the Stratosphere". I'm not going to bother to explain that one to you.
Actually, I'd really like to hear an explanation. I'm not going to claim to know anything about CFC's, but if these gases really are heavier than air and don't readily mix with air, how exactly does a bucket of them in my back yard elevate itself to the upper atmosphere?
There are some transactions that result in no real movement of money. I work for my employer, who pays me via direct deposit. Their bank balance goes down and mine goes up (all on a computer somewher). I go and buy a song off iTunes, paying with my credit card (all electronic). I pay the bill via my bank's web site, again, an electronic transaction.
You could also play WoW, which tracks your gold stash in a computer somewhere. You can farm some gold, changing a number in a database, much like the direct deposit transaction. You can then go and buy an item somewhere, again via an electronic transaction.
Assuming that I was telecommuting to my job, the only difference between that and WoW is that Visual Studio and Eclipse don't have such shiney graphics.
Obviously, there should be some sort of distinction created, because to the educated observer one is a game and the other a job.
I'd also like a "bloated" browser as well, full of plugins that are considered useful, carefully maintained, and also checked to make sure they all work well together.
It's called Opera, and works like a charm.
Does Iceweasel even send a different UserAgent string? I thought the only alteration was to remove the trademarked portions of FF, and I presume no one was asinine enough to trademark the user agent ...
The general figure for the number of illegal immigrants living in the US is 10 million. Out of a population of 300 million, that's 3.3%. I hardly think that by exploiting that small slice of the population we can reap greater rewards than countries where 100% of the population can be exploited. If US labor were cheap, our jobs wouldn't be hemmoraging overseas.
Copyright protection is granted under the assumption that one day the work will be released to the public domain (yes, I know, that hasn't *really* happened in like a hundred years). Given that, I think it is reasonable to expect that a non-DRM'd version of a work be placed in escrow pending the expiration of the copyright in order to receive protection. Sure, there's some overhead that someone (I'd like to see copyright holders) would have to cover, but I'm not too psyched about the extra cost of DVD-CSS and RPC-II licensing on my DVD players, either.
The device is actually nowhere near the processor. He took the innards of an Ionic Breeze, built a shielded box around them, and put them up front where you normally have your drive cages. The only mod to the processor heatsink was a grounding strap.