So let me get this straight. The Pope authorized someone to use the Papal imprimatur without reading the book? Could have sworn the Pope is supposed to be infallible. Yeah, I think I'd imprison, or maybe even kill, someone who proved that I'm not what I say I am.
He tried to play some NetFlix "Watch Now" content. It didn't want to play back, probably due to some issue with the DRM licensing scheme, which might have tied his montor and video card to the playback license. When looking for help, NetFlix just redirected him to run the COPP tool.
What he really needs to do is to delete the NetFlix license and get a new one that maps to his new hardware. Instead of giving him a tool to remove only the NetFlix license, NetFlix took the low road and recommended a utility that is meant to remove all licenses cleanly.
Not only that, but there is a way to back up the licenses he already has so that after COPP removes his licenses, he can reinstate them for the content he already has. He'll need to get a new license for the NetFlix "Watch Now" content, which is really all that he needs to do anyway.
So Netflix recommended a tool that will make life hard on him, but he has a means to backup the licenses, delete the existing ones, and then reload the licenses from the backup, but he doesn't want to do that.
Unless I completely missed something from the article text... (Always possible.)
IE7 already does that. When you close IE with multiple tabs open, it asks you "Do you want to close all tabs?" If you click the "Show Options", there are two choices: "1. Open these the next time I use IE" and "2. Do not show this again."
However, as usual, they get it wrong. When opening a new IE session, it's not smart enough to realize that the first 6 tabs are the same first 6 tabs you would normally open automatically when starting IE (new site, slashdot, email, friend's blog, etc...), and so basically it will open all the previous ones plus the normal starting tabs. Really annoying to save 10 tabs and get 16 the next time.
So, revenues of online poker sites were over $2 billion in 2005 (hence it being a billion-dollar industry), and the industry encompassed over $60 billion worth of bets. In case you're wondering, I never said that US players generate billions of revenue, I just said the industry as a whole is a billion-dollar industry. Seems like the US should want a piece of that.
Even Forbes thinks it's a billion-dollar industry, though I'm not sure what exactly their $12 billion represents -- possibly bets placed from US citizens, but I'm not sure... Quote from the article:
Exactly. Poker is not pure luck. You can sometimes bluff people out of a pot even though you have the worst hand, and you can also sucker people into thinking they have the best hand when you do. You can also lay down a losing hand. You're not stuck with playing a hand through to the end, and at any time you can decide to stay in or to get out (well, as long as it's your turn). There are many factors, which rely on a player making a choice. This is what makes it a game of skill.
A game of chance is when you have have nothing you can do to change the outcome. Slots, craps, roulette, those are games of chance.
And another game of chance is betting on games of skill -- since you're not involved in the outcome of the game, it's pure betting. However, betting on football, baseball, basketball, horse racing, etc... is all legal.
It seems quite hypocritical to call poker "gambling" or a "game of chance" and to make it illegal when there are very legal games of chance that are huge markets.
The US government should get their heads out of their asses, make online poker legal, and tax the revenue. Just like if I go to a poker tournament at a B&M casino and win $10,000 in a poker tournament and have it reported as earnings and taxed, the winnings (and losses) should be tracked and reported. It's a HUGE tax revenue for the government, since online poker is a billion dollar industry. They could also tax the earnings of any online poker establishments based in the US, since they would be a business, providing more money. I don't know about you, but I'd rather play online poker at a site based in the US. Because that way, I have a recourse in court if they do something wrong. Right now, any money I have locked away at a site in the Carribean -- it's quite hard to sue them to get my money back if they want to keep it.
If they include legal fees, and what they spend tracking down file sharers, it just might be more than she has to pay.
Even if somehow they're able to get back the expenses they spent tracking down the defendant, there is no way any judge will award them additional monies for tracking down OTHER people.
Actually its one of the changes for Vista that I hate. I just want one overall volume control, not on a per-app basis.
Which you still have. Apps default to the same level as the "Device volume" unless you change them. Basically, each volume per app is a percentage of the volume level of the device. If you set an app's volume to being the same level as the device volume, as you increase/decrease the device volume, the volume for the app increases/descreases as well. If you set an app's volume to being half the level as the device volume, then it will always be half the device volume. If you never open the Mixer control, all your volumes will be the same for all your apps, which is the device level.
Do you know of any antivirus program that requires manual updates? I'm not aware of such a beast anymore -- the ubiquity of the internet makes it really easy to do auto-updates, even for people on dialup. The program can just detect being connected to the internet and do its update then. There is _zero_ excuse from any antivirus vendor to not include auto updates as the default configuration.
Like some other comments I've seen, it seems like most problems are probably related to "free 60 day trial" versions that OEMs like to ship. People don't realize that they only have protection for a limited time. Dell/Gateway/et al should come to some agreements with AVG or Avast (or some other antivirus program that is totally free for end-users) instead of being whores for Symantec. I've been using AVG for a while now, and it's pretty good. I've never had to manually update it, and it says it's current as of today.
There was no "duty" left for the officer to perform. The suspect had already showed his bags and the officer and Circuit City were satisfied that he had not shoplifted anything. At this point, the officer has no complaint left to investigate, and should leave.
Oh no, you're not paying them to stop collecting data on you. You are paying them to prevent allowing a new credit line to be opened. Any current lenders you have will still be able to report on how you pay your loans to them. If you get assigned to a collection agency, that will still be reported.
It's just to prevent identify thiefs from opening a new account in your name.
I agree that a fee for this is absurd, but they will still collect all information on you that they are currently collecting.
So who's going to buy a laptop without being shown that it works? A pawn shop certainly isn't going to let you pawn it off to them unless you can show it works, and anybody with a slight amount of sense is going to as well. Maybe they can find someone who's going to buy it without even turning it on, but I doubt that.
Yes, laptops are a crime of convenience. And so is selling them. If it's not convenient for them to sell it, then they're going to toss it. Into the nearest garbage can, maybe just toss it off a bridge into a lake. There are lots of places where the thing will never come back.
If they can't get past the firmware password, then they'll just destroy the laptop. So a software application doesn't help, because the OS never booted. If they're competent enough to get past the firmware password, they're going to be competent enough to wipe the hard drive.
I call "old man" on you. Maybe someone who actually _cares_ where terms come from would take the time to think about what it originally meant. Most people don't give a crap. Including geeks.
Compared to the size and complexity of code handling images, the UI bit should be miniscule... atleast I suppose so. You obviously have never done UI programming. UI takes a lot of work to be done right.
That's because it's running command.com, not cmd.exe. command.com is the old MS-DOS command interpreter, and they have left command.com in for backwards compatibility. It's the same on Vista as well.
Why can't scientists use BOTH? It's quite possible that embryonic stem cells are better suited in some instances, and adult stem cells are better suited in others. There's no need to use one to the exclusion of the other.
So yes, embryonic stem cells _should_ be opened up to federal funding programs, so that advances can be made w/ either type of stem cell.
One should never be surprised by a promotion into management. If you are surprised, then it means they haven't been giving you things to do to build up your management skills. For example, being a technical lead where you don't have any reports, but lead the development on a product. Or an intern to mentor (complete with an intern project), if your company has interns. Or give you one or two people to manage at first. And of course, management training courses.
If you're not groomed into the role, you are not ready. Management is not something to be taken lightly -- a bad manager can ruin the morale of the people under him, can get overwhelmed by the project management and career development that goes with being a manager, and just overall tank the project.
What state judicial matter? Copyright is a FEDERAL issue, and the claims made against Capitol were counterclaims. Thus, the original case was filed in a Federal District Court, and the counter-claims were filed in the same court. That same court then made the ruling for Foster.
So, again, do US Marshals have jurisdiction over enforcing a US District Court decision?
You do realize that the kernel does not do any signing, that's Verisign's job, right? The kernel only verifies that the signature is valid (and trusted). All this hack is doing is causing the kernel to turn off the part where it refuses to load an unsigned driver.
From the article:
Vista is perfectly aware that an unsigned driver has been loaded: you will even get a warning a bit after the driver is loaded.
You may have missed the part in the article where the kernel *knows* it's running unsigned binaries, and thus turns off the DRM stuff. So there is no way to strip out the DRM, since that capability will be turned off when the system detects it's running unsigned binaries.
From the article:
Vista is perfectly aware that an unsigned driver has been loaded: you will even get a warning a bit after the driver is loaded. This also means that PMP will become aware that the driver is loaded, and disable high-definition media playback. This means that this tool will not help you bypass DRM in any way, because the original Vista protection mechanisms are still in place. Note that on Vista 32-bit, this behavior already exists by default in the OS, so it is not a "bug" of Purple Pill.
There is the second chance offer - something I refuse to accept on principal. I've gotten one immediately after an auction closed because the buyer backed out; but the bidding was in numerous $5 increments by the same unknown bidder until my high bid was beaten. The seller then offered a me a second chance buy immediately after the auction closed. That smelled too much like shill bidding (although I can't prove it)to find my final price and try to sell it at that price; another had a "second item" that they would sell for my high bid.
My rule is I'll only consider ones where the buyer offers it at my highest price before the first non-wining bidder bid; not my final highest bid. Sure I was willing to buy it at that price but do not feel any obligation to help a (possibly) unethical seller get a higher price than then they would from a legitimate auction.
I had a similar experience when bidding on a motorcycle on E-bay. I put in my max bid of $3500, and had to leave to complete my motorcycle safety training. At the time my bid went in, it was $3200. Just a few minutes before I left, I got an outbid notification. Oh well, I'll find something else. Then a minute later, I got an email (through ebay) from the person who outbid me saying "You can't outbid me, buddy. Let's keep this thing rolling." So some ass-hat was goading me into trying to bid more. I just walked away.
A day or so later, I got a second-chance auction, to buy it for the $3500, which was my "last bid". I wrote to the seller, explained to him that between my $3200 and $3500 bid, the only bids were from someone who apparently was only trying to ruin the auction, and thus I felt that my $3200 bid is what he should sell it to me for.
He agreed, which surprised me. I thought for sure he would decline, and if he had, I would have reported him and his "buddy" to ebay, using the email I received as some form of evidence, even if not absolute. I picked up the bike that weekend, and I noticed that the seller had given the bidder negative feedback, and the bidder had given negative feedback to the seller. I thought that showed everything was legit -- they wouldn't have dinged each other if they were working w/ each other to try to extract more money.
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So let me get this straight. The Pope authorized someone to use the Papal imprimatur without reading the book? Could have sworn the Pope is supposed to be infallible. Yeah, I think I'd imprison, or maybe even kill, someone who proved that I'm not what I say I am.
No, it stands for "Recording Industry Association of Assholes". Applicable for any country.
So, to summarzie:
He tried to play some NetFlix "Watch Now" content. It didn't want to play back, probably due to some issue with the DRM licensing scheme, which might have tied his montor and video card to the playback license. When looking for help, NetFlix just redirected him to run the COPP tool.
What he really needs to do is to delete the NetFlix license and get a new one that maps to his new hardware. Instead of giving him a tool to remove only the NetFlix license, NetFlix took the low road and recommended a utility that is meant to remove all licenses cleanly.
Not only that, but there is a way to back up the licenses he already has so that after COPP removes his licenses, he can reinstate them for the content he already has. He'll need to get a new license for the NetFlix "Watch Now" content, which is really all that he needs to do anyway.
So Netflix recommended a tool that will make life hard on him, but he has a means to backup the licenses, delete the existing ones, and then reload the licenses from the backup, but he doesn't want to do that.
Unless I completely missed something from the article text... (Always possible.)
IE7 already does that. When you close IE with multiple tabs open, it asks you "Do you want to close all tabs?" If you click the "Show Options", there are two choices: "1. Open these the next time I use IE" and "2. Do not show this again."
However, as usual, they get it wrong. When opening a new IE session, it's not smart enough to realize that the first 6 tabs are the same first 6 tabs you would normally open automatically when starting IE (new site, slashdot, email, friend's blog, etc...), and so basically it will open all the previous ones plus the normal starting tabs. Really annoying to save 10 tabs and get 16 the next time.
Even Forbes thinks it's a billion-dollar industry, though I'm not sure what exactly their $12 billion represents -- possibly bets placed from US citizens, but I'm not sure... Quote from the article:
Exactly. Poker is not pure luck. You can sometimes bluff people out of a pot even though you have the worst hand, and you can also sucker people into thinking they have the best hand when you do. You can also lay down a losing hand. You're not stuck with playing a hand through to the end, and at any time you can decide to stay in or to get out (well, as long as it's your turn). There are many factors, which rely on a player making a choice. This is what makes it a game of skill.
A game of chance is when you have have nothing you can do to change the outcome. Slots, craps, roulette, those are games of chance.
And another game of chance is betting on games of skill -- since you're not involved in the outcome of the game, it's pure betting. However, betting on football, baseball, basketball, horse racing, etc... is all legal.
It seems quite hypocritical to call poker "gambling" or a "game of chance" and to make it illegal when there are very legal games of chance that are huge markets.
The US government should get their heads out of their asses, make online poker legal, and tax the revenue. Just like if I go to a poker tournament at a B&M casino and win $10,000 in a poker tournament and have it reported as earnings and taxed, the winnings (and losses) should be tracked and reported. It's a HUGE tax revenue for the government, since online poker is a billion dollar industry. They could also tax the earnings of any online poker establishments based in the US, since they would be a business, providing more money. I don't know about you, but I'd rather play online poker at a site based in the US. Because that way, I have a recourse in court if they do something wrong. Right now, any money I have locked away at a site in the Carribean -- it's quite hard to sue them to get my money back if they want to keep it.
Do you know of any antivirus program that requires manual updates? I'm not aware of such a beast anymore -- the ubiquity of the internet makes it really easy to do auto-updates, even for people on dialup. The program can just detect being connected to the internet and do its update then. There is _zero_ excuse from any antivirus vendor to not include auto updates as the default configuration.
Like some other comments I've seen, it seems like most problems are probably related to "free 60 day trial" versions that OEMs like to ship. People don't realize that they only have protection for a limited time. Dell/Gateway/et al should come to some agreements with AVG or Avast (or some other antivirus program that is totally free for end-users) instead of being whores for Symantec. I've been using AVG for a while now, and it's pretty good. I've never had to manually update it, and it says it's current as of today.
It's 10 days before the bill becomes a law without a veto, not 7. If during that 10 day period the Congress adjourns, it becomes a "pocket veto".
There was no "duty" left for the officer to perform. The suspect had already showed his bags and the officer and Circuit City were satisfied that he had not shoplifted anything. At this point, the officer has no complaint left to investigate, and should leave.
Oh no, you're not paying them to stop collecting data on you. You are paying them to prevent allowing a new credit line to be opened. Any current lenders you have will still be able to report on how you pay your loans to them. If you get assigned to a collection agency, that will still be reported.
It's just to prevent identify thiefs from opening a new account in your name.
I agree that a fee for this is absurd, but they will still collect all information on you that they are currently collecting.
So who's going to buy a laptop without being shown that it works? A pawn shop certainly isn't going to let you pawn it off to them unless you can show it works, and anybody with a slight amount of sense is going to as well. Maybe they can find someone who's going to buy it without even turning it on, but I doubt that.
Yes, laptops are a crime of convenience. And so is selling them. If it's not convenient for them to sell it, then they're going to toss it. Into the nearest garbage can, maybe just toss it off a bridge into a lake. There are lots of places where the thing will never come back.
If they can't get past the firmware password, then they'll just destroy the laptop. So a software application doesn't help, because the OS never booted. If they're competent enough to get past the firmware password, they're going to be competent enough to wipe the hard drive.
I'm sure that Bush and Cheney have already started making plans. :)
I call "old man" on you. Maybe someone who actually _cares_ where terms come from would take the time to think about what it originally meant. Most people don't give a crap. Including geeks.
That's because it's running command.com, not cmd.exe. command.com is the old MS-DOS command interpreter, and they have left command.com in for backwards compatibility. It's the same on Vista as well.
Why can't scientists use BOTH? It's quite possible that embryonic stem cells are better suited in some instances, and adult stem cells are better suited in others. There's no need to use one to the exclusion of the other.
So yes, embryonic stem cells _should_ be opened up to federal funding programs, so that advances can be made w/ either type of stem cell.
One should never be surprised by a promotion into management. If you are surprised, then it means they haven't been giving you things to do to build up your management skills. For example, being a technical lead where you don't have any reports, but lead the development on a product. Or an intern to mentor (complete with an intern project), if your company has interns. Or give you one or two people to manage at first. And of course, management training courses.
If you're not groomed into the role, you are not ready. Management is not something to be taken lightly -- a bad manager can ruin the morale of the people under him, can get overwhelmed by the project management and career development that goes with being a manager, and just overall tank the project.
What state judicial matter? Copyright is a FEDERAL issue, and the claims made against Capitol were counterclaims. Thus, the original case was filed in a Federal District Court, and the counter-claims were filed in the same court. That same court then made the ruling for Foster.
So, again, do US Marshals have jurisdiction over enforcing a US District Court decision?
From the article:
From the article:
Doubtful. The seller had a perfect rating. I'm not sure why he would screw it up, when he'd made the sale anyway.
A day or so later, I got a second-chance auction, to buy it for the $3500, which was my "last bid". I wrote to the seller, explained to him that between my $3200 and $3500 bid, the only bids were from someone who apparently was only trying to ruin the auction, and thus I felt that my $3200 bid is what he should sell it to me for.
He agreed, which surprised me. I thought for sure he would decline, and if he had, I would have reported him and his "buddy" to ebay, using the email I received as some form of evidence, even if not absolute. I picked up the bike that weekend, and I noticed that the seller had given the bidder negative feedback, and the bidder had given negative feedback to the seller. I thought that showed everything was legit -- they wouldn't have dinged each other if they were working w/ each other to try to extract more money.