is that I've actually read the 'crushing by elephant' article before now.
I was on a 'wiki-wander' (hit random page until you get something vaguely interesting, then follow any link that interests you in a new tab. It's easy to have a dozen tabs open. It's both fun & a fantastic way to increase your general knowledge) and that turned up. I don't remember how though.
In the UK stuff can potentially be the responsibility of the retailer (that's the retailer, NOT the maufacturer) for up to 6 years. Not that I know of any cases where someone has returned something after 6 years, but they could.
It seems strange that the US doesn't have similar consumer protenction laws, but I suppose that's aggressive capitalism for you.
wrap it in a big ball around your hand, the transmitter and the reciever on the car.
Press the button.
For additional effect, get the transmitter touching the reciever.
Our car has an RF door-unlock. It also has a key incase your battery runs out... that in itself should be a reason to have a proper key, let alone the frequency getting blocked by someone else using it.
of course it doesn't require a CD to play, copy the contents of the disk to a virtual drive in harddisk space & your away.
Although it isn't educational, Total Annihilation would be better for educational. Chess perhaps, or Caesar III.
Actually, I take it back, Starcraft, or most any computer game has SOME educational value, as it gets your mind working. Starcraft can also teach the kids how not to design a user interface.
Just don't include any hentai stuff, that wouldn't go down well.
M&S = Marks & Spencers, high street department store type place for those not in the UK.
They don't expire.
3 years ago, my mother spent the M&S gift vouchers that they had recieved at their wedding 22 years after having been given them..
No doubt the person behind the counter was shocked to be given a gift voucher older than they were, but it was still valid.
However, it hadn't survived inflation very well, 2 1 vouchers were still worth 2. Unfortunately, 2 is not worth nearly as much as what it was worth when the vouchers were given.
M&S took a decent value of cash for these bits of paper & redeemed them 22 years later (after having had the cash to invest for 22 years) for something worth much less.
Which is why I hate getting gift vouchers - I've never had one for over 22 years, but if I did it would depreciate in real value... and I'd be locked into spending it at a specific place.
Or mail them a CDR with all the latest patches on it. What? 0.16 for the disk + P&P not much to keep on the good side of customers.
with 700Mb to use you could include ZoneAlarm, AVG, Ad-Aware, Mozilla AND all the required patches/service packs.
Then all you need is a piece of software on the disk which installs it all (or checks if it was there before) which promptly generates a code once everything has been installed which the customer reads over the 'phone to the people at the ISP and the account gets reactivated.
I think that t he scissors idea is fantastic!
Give the thing legs and a solar panel for power, 2 fingers in 1 hand & a pair of scissors in the other.
It can walk around the garden during the day, stretching each invdividual blade of grass out and *snip*.
With a decent sized garden, the grass could be long again at the start point by the time that it finishes - so no 'unused' time. win-win situation.
I seem to have been getting the wrong end of the stick about all this.
They sue the people MAKING THE FILES AVAILABLE?
(IANAL but)When last I checked have a legitimate copy of a copyrighted work and making it easy for someone to make an illegitimate copy of it (like putting a still-in-copyright painting outside my house where people can photgraph it) wasn't illegal. The crime was making a copy, not providing the source to be copied. What gives? (or are they just assuming that none of these people are files available that they didn't themselves illegally download).
All mp3's are six degrees of seperation or less away from a CD, the problem is that it's the same CD and that's why the music insudtry has gone down the pan.
And if so, can they legally do that? They are not a law enforcement agency, can they say that the laws regarding copyright don't apply to us since we own the copyright?
IANAL OAEVRAL(Or Anything Even Vaguely Resembling A Lawyer)
Well, since they're somewhat chummy with the artists, they could allow the RIAA the rights to copy the music for that purpose.
The problem with the 'data in the file' is that it COULD appear from other sources (although as they are civil cases, they don't need 'all reasonable doubt') but all it should take is someone to distribute a programme to add the tag to legitimate files, and now the RIAA doesn't have a case because the tag is no longer unqiue.
Stuff navies.
If we ever come across a hostile alien species (a real life go-ould perhaps), it would make a viable space-based weapon, since it doesn't rely on the prescence of oxygen
how are they planning to generate that much power?
7.5 Megawatts output from the generators, but the ship is using some of that
Either, they just fire it straight from the socket and all the lights go out.
Or, they have a very big bank of capacitors.
Or, they have a homopolar generator.
I'm hoping for the massive spinning disk, but that could be a pain to use if the ship is under attack.
Perhaps it'll hail a new age for dreadnoughts, with the range upped somewhat!
Maybe they want to ensure that users are getting what they pay for, and not more
Ummm, I was under the impression that they were paying for a whole pile of transistors and some copper (at lowest detail). Surely pumping more current/voltage through said bunch of transistors is still only getting what you paid for, you're just using it to it's full potential.
I paid for a bunch of transistors which, when used optimally, will run at speed X, whether or not speed X is what Intel tells me that it will do.
Now, if I was activating a transporter device which stole additional transistors from Intel HQ and put them onto the chip, that would be getting more than I paid for.
If it was there when I bought the thing then I paid for it, whether or not you told ME that it was there, YOU knew that you were selling me the extra capacity.
We've/.ed them.
Bwuha-ha-ha-ha, mwuh-mwu-ah mwuh-mw-a-ha-ha-ha.
Seriously though, how about we find an excuse to link to them every week or so and bring their bandwidth to its knees.
I forecast an increase of off-shore servers where 'hate sites' can be hosted outisde the juristiction of any other nations (I believe that it's called Happyland or somesuch other silly names - it's an old WW2-era anti-air platform at sea to try and catch bombers coming to bomb the mainland UK, someone too it over and procaimed it a free country & now hosts web servers). Presumably we'll see more of these mini-countries appearing.
The problem here is that laws will just be made to make it possible to prosecute the internet-backbone providers for transmitting the information, and it'll still get blocked (or they just won't run a connection to the mini-countries). No-one can directly control the details of what goes on, but they can bring in draconian measures to stop everything, along with some innocent stuff.
but various EULA or ToS 'contracts' also tend to include a clause "we can change this at any time, without telling you, and it's your job to check if we've changed it, in the mean time we'll assume that you agree to the changes".
uuuuuh, right. They can change the agreement without telling me and it still be legally binding.
If a company did change their EULA so that usage of the software was against it, sent a letter saying "we're gonna sue you because you've broken x-million laws in violating our EULA" and someone settled, would they then have a case for obtaining money by deception?
and you're at their mercy as to what constitutes "sufficient evidence" that you didn't steal their signal.
and if it does go to court, you've basically just handed over your entire defence case to the prosecution.
I have no real understanding of the US court system, but couldn't you just defend yourself?
With a case so weak as "he has the capability to break the law, ergo he is breaking the law" it souldn't take a legal genius point out that there are legitimate uses for such technology & that no evidence has been presented to the court showing you to have made illegitimate use of the equipment.
This technology has been around since the latest James Bond film - Die Another Day, it was attached to his car.
Am I the only person around here that watched it? being as it disn't have the word 'star' in the title.
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is that I've actually read the 'crushing by elephant' article before now.
I was on a 'wiki-wander' (hit random page until you get something vaguely interesting, then follow any link that interests you in a new tab. It's easy to have a dozen tabs open. It's both fun & a fantastic way to increase your general knowledge) and that turned up. I don't remember how though.
In the UK stuff can potentially be the responsibility of the retailer (that's the retailer, NOT the maufacturer) for up to 6 years. Not that I know of any cases where someone has returned something after 6 years, but they could.
It seems strange that the US doesn't have similar consumer protenction laws, but I suppose that's aggressive capitalism for you.
wrap it in a big ball around your hand, the transmitter and the reciever on the car.
Press the button.
For additional effect, get the transmitter touching the reciever.
Our car has an RF door-unlock. It also has a key incase your battery runs out... that in itself should be a reason to have a proper key, let alone the frequency getting blocked by someone else using it.
of course it doesn't require a CD to play, copy the contents of the disk to a virtual drive in harddisk space & your away.
Although it isn't educational, Total Annihilation would be better for educational. Chess perhaps, or Caesar III.
Actually, I take it back, Starcraft, or most any computer game has SOME educational value, as it gets your mind working. Starcraft can also teach the kids how not to design a user interface.
Just don't include any hentai stuff, that wouldn't go down well.
It earns interest equal to -inflation.
Which is worse that nothing, so, er, yeah.
M&S = Marks & Spencers, high street department store type place for those not in the UK.
They don't expire.
3 years ago, my mother spent the M&S gift vouchers that they had recieved at their wedding 22 years after having been given them..
No doubt the person behind the counter was shocked to be given a gift voucher older than they were, but it was still valid.
However, it hadn't survived inflation very well, 2 1 vouchers were still worth 2. Unfortunately, 2 is not worth nearly as much as what it was worth when the vouchers were given.
M&S took a decent value of cash for these bits of paper & redeemed them 22 years later (after having had the cash to invest for 22 years) for something worth much less.
Which is why I hate getting gift vouchers - I've never had one for over 22 years, but if I did it would depreciate in real value... and I'd be locked into spending it at a specific place.
Or mail them a CDR with all the latest patches on it. What? 0.16 for the disk + P&P not much to keep on the good side of customers.
with 700Mb to use you could include ZoneAlarm, AVG, Ad-Aware, Mozilla AND all the required patches/service packs.
Then all you need is a piece of software on the disk which installs it all (or checks if it was there before) which promptly generates a code once everything has been installed which the customer reads over the 'phone to the people at the ISP and the account gets reactivated.
I think that t he scissors idea is fantastic!
Give the thing legs and a solar panel for power, 2 fingers in 1 hand & a pair of scissors in the other.
It can walk around the garden during the day, stretching each invdividual blade of grass out and *snip*.
With a decent sized garden, the grass could be long again at the start point by the time that it finishes - so no 'unused' time. win-win situation.
I seem to have been getting the wrong end of the stick about all this.
They sue the people MAKING THE FILES AVAILABLE?
(IANAL but)When last I checked have a legitimate copy of a copyrighted work and making it easy for someone to make an illegitimate copy of it (like putting a still-in-copyright painting outside my house where people can photgraph it) wasn't illegal. The crime was making a copy, not providing the source to be copied. What gives? (or are they just assuming that none of these people are files available that they didn't themselves illegally download).
All mp3's are six degrees of seperation or less away from a CD, the problem is that it's the same CD and that's why the music insudtry has gone down the pan.
IANAL OAEVRAL(Or Anything Even Vaguely Resembling A Lawyer)
Well, since they're somewhat chummy with the artists, they could allow the RIAA the rights to copy the music for that purpose.
The problem with the 'data in the file' is that it COULD appear from other sources (although as they are civil cases, they don't need 'all reasonable doubt') but all it should take is someone to distribute a programme to add the tag to legitimate files, and now the RIAA doesn't have a case because the tag is no longer unqiue.
Stuff navies.
If we ever come across a hostile alien species (a real life go-ould perhaps), it would make a viable space-based weapon, since it doesn't rely on the prescence of oxygen
how are they planning to generate that much power?
7.5 Megawatts output from the generators, but the ship is using some of that
Either, they just fire it straight from the socket and all the lights go out.
Or, they have a very big bank of capacitors.
Or, they have a homopolar generator.
I'm hoping for the massive spinning disk, but that could be a pain to use if the ship is under attack.
Perhaps it'll hail a new age for dreadnoughts, with the range upped somewhat!
Ummm, I was under the impression that they were paying for a whole pile of transistors and some copper (at lowest detail). Surely pumping more current/voltage through said bunch of transistors is still only getting what you paid for, you're just using it to it's full potential.
I paid for a bunch of transistors which, when used optimally, will run at speed X, whether or not speed X is what Intel tells me that it will do.
Now, if I was activating a transporter device which stole additional transistors from Intel HQ and put them onto the chip, that would be getting more than I paid for.
If it was there when I bought the thing then I paid for it, whether or not you told ME that it was there, YOU knew that you were selling me the extra capacity.
We've /.ed them.
Bwuha-ha-ha-ha, mwuh-mwu-ah mwuh-mw-a-ha-ha-ha.
Seriously though, how about we find an excuse to link to them every week or so and bring their bandwidth to its knees.
I forecast an increase of off-shore servers where 'hate sites' can be hosted outisde the juristiction of any other nations (I believe that it's called Happyland or somesuch other silly names - it's an old WW2-era anti-air platform at sea to try and catch bombers coming to bomb the mainland UK, someone too it over and procaimed it a free country & now hosts web servers). Presumably we'll see more of these mini-countries appearing.
The problem here is that laws will just be made to make it possible to prosecute the internet-backbone providers for transmitting the information, and it'll still get blocked (or they just won't run a connection to the mini-countries). No-one can directly control the details of what goes on, but they can bring in draconian measures to stop everything, along with some innocent stuff.
but various EULA or ToS 'contracts' also tend to include a clause "we can change this at any time, without telling you, and it's your job to check if we've changed it, in the mean time we'll assume that you agree to the changes".
uuuuuh, right. They can change the agreement without telling me and it still be legally binding.
If a company did change their EULA so that usage of the software was against it, sent a letter saying "we're gonna sue you because you've broken x-million laws in violating our EULA" and someone settled, would they then have a case for obtaining money by deception?
and you're at their mercy as to what constitutes "sufficient evidence" that you didn't steal their signal.
and if it does go to court, you've basically just handed over your entire defence case to the prosecution.
I have no real understanding of the US court system, but couldn't you just defend yourself?
With a case so weak as "he has the capability to break the law, ergo he is breaking the law" it souldn't take a legal genius point out that there are legitimate uses for such technology & that no evidence has been presented to the court showing you to have made illegitimate use of the equipment.
This technology has been around since the latest James Bond film - Die Another Day, it was attached to his car.
Am I the only person around here that watched it? being as it disn't have the word 'star' in the title.