I have to applaud your description, nailed it! If you have some peer that does have an arrogant streak though, what diplomatic way would you go about telling him or her that they are arrogant but not necessarily that bright or educated???
You mean we get to keep all the hardware as is, and not pay more to get more..... I am in, but alas, Canadian Monopoly companies will see through this, and implant some way of getting more money for the lost bandwidth they are able to charge us for....too bad it is not credible business model.
I agree with you, but you are missing one more key element....no real incentive to upgrade!!! I mentioned this years ago when xp was being brought into the forefront....if they pushed some free legit copies and got rid of all the win200 and 98 out there... they would have a bigger army of secure pc running on the web.....
If they did this for all the users out there at home, then those users would get used to windows7/8 and not look back, and once they arrive back at work, they gripe to the boss he is outdated. Then this would force the boss to consider more the move....which of course also would secure the web even more from malware that does not work on newer versions of windows.
It is a power move that costs money at the start, but reaps many rewards later, as well as a bigger market margin of the desktop market, whether it be at home or work!
Now the cops have no choice but to look into the info that anonymous has posted, and i can guarantee you Anonymous were thorough.... If the cops still do nothing after this, then they are douche bags.... and let Anonymous continue.....either way Anonymous did the right thing... give up info to get the guy arrested....cops go after that info, arrest the guy.... or give up info to get the guy arrested....cops dont go after the guy, but vigilantes do, either way, that guy will get whats coming to him.
I know about this, and am very aware that this practice is used, however, I also know they estimate that the distance betwen the earth and say star 1 is at xx km per second, but 2 things pop into question.... can we use the same formula for something that does not behave the same as stars, we are not talking about an actual object moving in space, but we are talking about a virtual(is it really?) edge of the universe, from which we assume on the other is nothingness, therefor could we really say this object would be subject to the same formulas used to calculate distances for stars.
Also the premise that the stars are moving away from the Earth at a perticular rate is a false assumption...can we say the big bang exactly started on the Earth's position...I know we think we are the center of the universe on this small rock, but it could also be we are right on the edge of the universe and not even know it, as we do not know the full size of the universe at this point.
Use this same point of view to understand that all planets orbit stars (most anyways), and stars do solar systems, and solar systems do galaxies, we have a multitude of combinations of orbits that propel objects in such patterns that it would be unpredictable to know at which point one star is coming closer to us because it is coming back on its revolving orbit....have u seen 2 galaxies merge, the actual gravitational pull sends them spiraling together smashing solar systems and planets together from the sheer force of it all....would they not appear differently using this same formula to explain why one day they were further out, and the next closer to use even though their orbit was understood as pulling them away from us.....
All in all, I know we know nothing when it comes to space, and yet we declare so many things as if fact. My point remains, you can only be absolute when you have fact in hand.and unless we have God's 2 dimensional game board or map of the universe showing exact distances of all there is in this universe from each other that we can look down at from a bird's point of view, all we have are these speculations on our part.....
I am not sure about that, who is to say how much further out the edge of the universe is from the very first galaxy that we may record, or maybe we still have yet to actually be able to see the first galaxy seeing as it is so far away, so we could be way off if we just use the distances between us and the galaxies, vs. the actual measurement of the edge to us...no?
I am no mathematician, but it seems that everything is theoretical at this point in terms of what we THINK we know and what is fact, hence my original comment we do not really know...who knows, maybe the universe started to expand 1 billion years before the first galaxy showed up, would that not affect how much size the universe had already grown, and thereby give us false calculations being off by 1 billion years of expanding/speed?
Bu t then we would have proof we are no longer alone in the universe and all religions that base God to be centered around the earth and no where else, might have to perish, no?
I hope they give her the chair, I mean come on, all those murders....what sort of message does this promote???
I am now banishing myself from WoW, as I see the futility in promoting fun and a means of escape outside my professional environment. I will now become Max Headroom!
Seeing as we can not see the edge of the universe from where we are.... how can we really tell if yesterday the edge was 1.2 km less then it is today?
Are we saying that all objects are moving away from each other at that rate? Of course not, they have gravity and orbits and all that.... so what are they using to gauge the edge of the universe has extended from yesterday?
So because of the fact that they had this is their mentioned contract, they could not have transferred it to some other source that may have needed it. We will buy for 10,000$ and only used for 9,000$ so if we pay for the full 10,000$ but you still owe us for the 1000$ that we can do what we want with... such as resell it to someone else.... unless of course that was in their contract as well?
I have to agree, you obviously are aware that you need to bypass the firewall.... if you need to send sensitive information, then use a regular email account but encrypted files... if you just need access to a website that has your p0rn stash and is blocked, just wait till you get home.
In case you are not aware, Chinese Law is very severe, and having a non english court appearance could make it difficult for you to know you are being properly represented.
But this does not make sense, I know that if a home goes solar, they can have the extra electricity bought back for a certain price..... how could you then be told because you had enough to buy back , you will be fined. Maybe a lawyer did not see the fine print when MS signed the contract, but it definitely does not make any sense to be charged for being self sustaining.
Just get the government to sell off at a profit their 15 million addresses leaving them with 1 million (really, come on, that should be enough!) This would also make them some money to balance off the overspending in the past on technology....
I am glad to hear it, I have always thought that the blood diamond problem in Africa was something that could be avoided if we saturated the market with enough diamonds to bring the price way down...and now we have trillions of carots! SO bring it all out at once, saturate the market and become worthless....and you will see no more diamonds coming out of africa....
Now will this ever happen, probably not, because I am sure some people will try their best to not let this happen....but if it was the Chinese, you think they would care about that.....they would bring out as much as possible and sell the stuff overnight if they could...bringing about a market crash for anyone who has stocks in diamonds...
This is where you see the level of ingenuity....being that they are developers, they forgot that they could have saved a whole lot of time and effort and traveling expenses, and just used google's streetview!
I applause his effort, in atleast taking a personal interest in such things, too many presidents today seem to just forget all about the environment they live in... Surely Obama could have done a better job with the oil spill, but he just didnt care about the wildlife or sealife.... I wonder how Putin would have done in his place.... lined up the board of directors for that oil company and shoot them all???
I am sure that WoW's EULA covers this watermark, as it does the installation of The Warden service which actually tells Blizzard all the apps running on your computer at the time that you play their game. This is extremely intrusive, much more than this watermark.... I therefor suspect the wording used to perpetuate this EULA to encompass the warden would also apply to the watermarks.
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I have to applaud your description, nailed it!
If you have some peer that does have an arrogant streak though,
what diplomatic way would you go about telling him or her that they are arrogant but
not necessarily that bright or educated???
You mean we get to keep all the hardware as is, and not pay more to get more..... I am in, but alas, Canadian Monopoly companies will see through this, and implant some way of getting more money for the lost bandwidth they are able to charge us for....too bad it is not credible business model.
I agree with you, but you are missing one more key element....no real incentive to upgrade!!!
I mentioned this years ago when xp was being brought into the forefront....if they pushed some free legit copies and got rid of all the win200 and 98 out there...
they would have a bigger army of secure pc running on the web.....
If they did this for all the users out there at home, then those users would get used to windows7/8 and not look back, and once they arrive back at work, they gripe to the boss he is outdated. Then this would force the boss to consider more the move....which of course also would secure the web even more from malware that does not work on newer versions of windows.
It is a power move that costs money at the start, but reaps many rewards later, as well as a bigger market margin of the desktop market, whether it be at home or work!
I would seriously consider this to be a sign of the times, how old is the programming on these pacemakers...old or new model....my money is on new!
Now the cops have no choice but to look into the info that anonymous has posted, and i can guarantee you Anonymous were thorough.... .....either way Anonymous did the right thing...
If the cops still do nothing after this, then they are douche bags.... and let Anonymous continue
give up info to get the guy arrested....cops go after that info, arrest the guy....
or give up info to get the guy arrested....cops dont go after the guy, but vigilantes do,
either way, that guy will get whats coming to him.
Good job guys! ~~_\|/_~~
I know about this, and am very aware that this practice is used, however, I also know they estimate that the distance betwen the earth and say star 1 is at xx km per second, but 2 things pop into question.... can we use the same formula for something that does not behave the same as stars, we are not talking about an actual object moving in space, but we are talking about a virtual(is it really?) edge of the universe, from which we assume on the other is nothingness, therefor could we really say this object would be subject to the same formulas used to calculate distances for stars.
Also the premise that the stars are moving away from the Earth at a perticular rate is a false assumption...can we say the big bang exactly started on the Earth's position...I know we think we are the center of the universe on this small rock, but it could also be we are right on the edge of the universe and not even know it,
as we do not know the full size of the universe at this point.
Use this same point of view to understand that all planets orbit stars (most anyways), and stars do solar systems, and solar systems do galaxies, we have a multitude of combinations of orbits that propel objects in such patterns that it would be unpredictable to know at which point one star is coming closer to us because it is coming back on its revolving orbit....have u seen 2 galaxies merge, the actual gravitational pull sends them spiraling together smashing solar systems and planets together from the sheer force of it all....would they not appear differently using this same formula to explain why one day they were further out, and the next closer to use even though their orbit was understood as pulling them away from us.....
All in all, I know we know nothing when it comes to space, and yet we declare so many things as if fact. My point remains, you can only be absolute when you have fact in hand.and unless we have God's 2 dimensional game board or map of the universe showing exact distances of all there is in this universe from each other that we can look down at from a bird's point of view, all we have are these speculations on our part.....
I am not sure about that, who is to say how much further out the edge of the universe is from the very first galaxy that we may record, or maybe we still have yet to actually be able to see the first galaxy seeing as it is so far away, so we could be way off if we just use the distances between us and the galaxies, vs. the actual measurement of the edge to us...no?
I am no mathematician, but it seems that everything is theoretical at this point in terms of what we THINK we know and what is fact, hence my original comment
we do not really know...who knows, maybe the universe started to expand 1 billion years before the first galaxy showed up, would that not affect how much size the universe had already grown, and thereby give us false calculations being off by 1 billion years of expanding/speed?
Bu t then we would have proof we are no longer alone in the universe and all religions that base God to be centered around the earth and no where else, might have to perish, no?
I hope they give her the chair, I mean come on, all those murders....what sort of message does this promote???
I am now banishing myself from WoW, as I see the futility in promoting fun and a means of escape outside my professional environment.
I will now become Max Headroom!
Sit under a lightning storm with a gold club pointing out as my car antenna.......and wait.......
Charge me up Scotty!
Seeing as we can not see the edge of the universe from where we are....
how can we really tell if yesterday the edge was 1.2 km less then it is today?
Are we saying that all objects are moving away from each other at that rate?
Of course not, they have gravity and orbits and all that....
so what are they using to gauge the edge of the universe has extended from yesterday?
Seriously! I want to know
I never knew we had a reserve,....of maple syrup!
Just in case we run out...????
Is there even a value to this, seeing as it can go bad (shelf life?)
Or i can sublease it for the last 2 months too...that is my legal right.
I applaud your wisdom , and wish more of the business folks would be as wise.
So because of the fact that they had this is their mentioned contract, they could not have transferred it to some other source that may have needed it.
We will buy for 10,000$ and only used for 9,000$ so if we pay for the full 10,000$ but you still owe us for the 1000$ that we can do what we want with...
such as resell it to someone else.... unless of course that was in their contract as well?
Yes!, 1 point for the animals
I have to agree, you obviously are aware that you need to bypass the firewall....
if you need to send sensitive information, then use a regular email account but encrypted files...
if you just need access to a website that has your p0rn stash and is blocked, just wait till you get home.
In case you are not aware, Chinese Law is very severe, and having a non english court appearance
could make it difficult for you to know you are being properly represented.
But this does not make sense, I know that if a home goes solar, they can have the extra electricity bought back for a certain price.....
how could you then be told because you had enough to buy back , you will be fined.
Maybe a lawyer did not see the fine print when MS signed the contract, but it definitely does not make any sense to be charged for being self sustaining.
Just get the government to sell off at a profit their 15 million addresses leaving them with 1 million (really, come on, that should be enough!)
This would also make them some money to balance off the overspending in the past on technology....
I am glad to hear it, I have always thought that the blood diamond problem in Africa was something that could be avoided if we saturated the market with enough diamonds to bring the price way down...and now we have trillions of carots! SO bring it all out at once, saturate the market and become worthless....and
you will see no more diamonds coming out of africa....
Now will this ever happen, probably not, because I am sure some people will try their best to not let this happen....but if it was the Chinese, you think they would care about that.....they would bring out as much as possible and sell the stuff overnight if they could...bringing about a market crash for anyone who has stocks in diamonds...
>If you don't like it, lobby your lawmakers.
hahahahahahahahaha.......hahahahahahahahahaha.........hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....
I really wish i had some points right now....i would have modded +5 funny!
This is where you see the level of ingenuity....being that they are developers, they forgot that they could have saved a whole lot of time and effort and traveling expenses, and just used google's streetview!
I applause his effort, in atleast taking a personal interest in such things, too many presidents today seem to just forget all about the environment they live in...
Surely Obama could have done a better job with the oil spill, but he just didnt care about the wildlife or sealife.... I wonder how Putin would have done in his place....
lined up the board of directors for that oil company and shoot them all???
I am sure that WoW's EULA covers this watermark, as it does the installation of The Warden service which actually tells Blizzard all the apps running on your computer at the time that you play their game. This is extremely intrusive, much more than this watermark.... I therefor suspect the wording used to perpetuate this EULA to encompass the warden would also apply to the watermarks.
Long Live WoW!