He can communicate and interact with others -- it's called "the real world". He can buy things in stores. He can buy books to learn more about programming. The internet is a tool, not a requirement for life. It's a tool that he abused.
You make a valid point that he only abused a part of that tool -- the social networking sites. Maybe he should be banned from using any social networking applications/sites on the internet. No MySpace, no LiveJournal, no AIM/ICQ/Yahoo/MSN,Jabber/etc... But I'm fine with the judge's ruling.
TiVo's potential to monitor (and embarrass) millions of people was made clear in 2004 after Janet Jackson's right breast made a surprise appearance during the Super Bowl halftime show.
It shouldn't come as any surprise that three years later, they're finally selling that information. The surprising thing is that it took them this long to decide to sell it. This really isn't any different than the Nielsen rating. Actually, TiVo can replace the Nielsen rating because that uses rough estimates of # of households, # of TVs per household, and surveys that, while they might be representative of the viewing population, are nowhere near exact. TiVo can knows how many active subscribers it has and can determine very accurately what each of those TiVo boxes is viewing/recording/skipping around.
I mean consider an appropriate physical analogy for what this kid did. It would be like if he walked into a bookstore that looked to be open but turned out that the staff had taken the day off and gone home but forgot to lock up but then instead of stealing anything rearranged all the books so they spelled out funny comments and left a little note on the cash register suggesting they lock the store next time.
Maybe an appropriate sentence would be that he has to:
1. Pay for the amount of time that was spent by the library re-arranging the books to the original order
2. Pay for the amount of down-time of the library where they had to close because the customers could not find the books they were looking for until everything was fixed
And maybe, since all that does is restore the damages and does nothing about the malicious intent, he should have something additional, like:
3. Banned from any library for 3 years
4. Since he affected the community, do 3 months of community service
So... I think his punishment is right in line with your example.
Finally, a question for the lawyers, if there are any here: if Novell does distribute such conflicting changes and if MS chooses not to sue Novell over this, can they (MS) go after anybody else? Don't they lose the rights they choose not to defend?
IANAL, but I know the answer to this. Trademark is the only thing required by the law to be actively defended or you lose it. Selectively enforcing patents or copyright violations is perfectly legal.
Similarly, I use Ctrl-Alt-S to launch my screen saver... But I think the point here is you don't have to remember that Cygwin Rxvt is Ctrl-Shift-10, and Calc is Ctrl-Shift-F12, and IE is Ctrl-Shift-F6 and so on. If you know the name of the app, you just type "launch [appname]". That's probably easier than remembering which keyboard combination maps to which application.
Of course, most people probably have a small suite of applications they actually run all the time, and probably only 5-10 shortcuts would really be used, and that's simple to remember which application goes to which shortcut. To each their own, I guess. I'll never pay $25-$40 for something like that. Like one person suggested earlier, create a scripts directory, add it to your path, and then create scripts like "fire" and "word" and "doom3", then just use Windows-R to open the Run window, and type the name of the script.
Or, you can do like I do -- pin the common applications to your start menu (I think you can pin up to 10 applications, but not sure what the number is), and then you can use Ctrl-Esc and a few arrow keys to launch it. I find pinning common application to be very easy and useful.
Yeah, I tried that too. I think it would be nice if it was an "option". Then you could see how much it actually costs you do get Windows with a new PC.
As an aside, of the three models, only one of them allowed you to choose "No monitor", which is the Intel system. To go from a 19" LCD (default selection) to no monitor takes $240 off the price, which I think is pretty nice. However, that option was nowhere to be found on the two AMD systems. Considering I already have dual-20" LCD monitors, buying yet another makes no sense. And going from a 19" to a 17" (for the AMD systems) only takes off $40 from the price...
To play devil's advocate here, if they post a torrent and seed it, they are allowing you to DOWNLOAD it from them. However, if you have a stream to UPLOAD content to others (like a good torrent user), you do not have that right. So while they were the ones copying it to you, and that was their right, they never once gave you any rights to copy it again. So they just have to have a source sending it and another machine re-downloading it from you, and you've copied it without permission.
I've never run BSD. What I do know is that the applications I used required me to configure them to use ALSA, ESD (Enhance Sound Daemon), OpenSound (OSS), and maybe there were one or two more choices. Some apps would only support OpenSound and ALSA, while another would only be ESD, and another would be ESD or ALSA, etc... There was no guarantee of overlap of sound configuration choices for the apps I wanted to use. So somehow, these applications were calling different APIs depending on your configuration. That's broken. If/when Ubuntu/Linux solve this problem, I'll give them a shot.
I originally tried Ubuntu 5.4, then upgraded to 5.10, but that didn't fix my sound system issues, so I just wiped it. Maybe I'll try 7.4 when it comes out. As I said, I really wanted to use it, but just couldn't figure out the sound problems.
I've seen Ubuntu -- I hoped to use it as my primary OS. Did that for a couple months. But the standard FOSS solution of "instead of agreeing on a standard, everyone roll their own solution" meant that I had to change sound systems just to be able to use GAIM, Doom 3, and various other applications. When I could get them to actually use the same sound system, I found that the audio was hugely delayed (to the tune of 300-500 milliseconds) which meant when a monster attacked me in Doom 3, I didn't hear the sounds until I was already being attacked. When I shot, I would see the guy fall before I heard the sound. I had to tweak the buffering settings manually!
My point is that I had to switch between sound systems as my applications changed. In Windows, it's all the same. No special coding needed for the applications, no switching between systems, no worries about sounds being delayed.
No distribution of Linux is ready for the desktop until things as basic as sound are standardized into a single programmable interface and all applications use those APIs.
Disclaimer: I have not tried the latest version of Ubuntu. But my understanding is that the multiple sound systems problem is still a problem in general for Linux distributions. Fix it, and I'll be glad to try again.
Except when I send something to a friend, I do it like this: "NSFW: http://some.place.not/safe_for_work". I don't have the right to edit that link to make it "NSFW". So whoever created that webpage has to add the tags to the appropriate parts. What's in it for them? (I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm just wondering why Entensity.net would mark the content as NSFW.) Also, in some cases, just having pictures of girls in bikinis is enough to be NSFW, but do you really think that maximonline is going to add this tag?
That's an awesome statement! Do you mind if I start using that anytime I hear "xxx volts is quite enough to kill" by someone who thinks they know what the hell they're talking about? (It's amazing how many times this sort of thing gets incorrectly state and then subsequently corrected.)
Happy Windows ME users were few and far between in my experience. Not having native USB support as well as having a host of stability issues that were hard to debug, etc. few people upgraded to it or quickly upgraded away from it when XP became wildly available.
Yup. Went from one Microsoft product to another. Who cares if it failed when just about everyone who had it still ran a Microsoft OS when all was said and done?
1. New plate does not have RFID signal. Police pull over car for having an improperly registered car, and do manual checks. If things are A-OK, the guy is sent off with a "fix-it ticket", which probably means no fine, he couldn't know the RFID chip was malfunctioning, but needs to get a new plate within 2 weeks or something. Or upon manual inspection, it is found that this is a stolen car (from VIN number, registration, etc...)
2. New plate has an RFID signal. Police driving along just do a "random" check. They point their RFID reader to the car, it pulls up recorded information about the car the plate is registered to. Make, model, color. If those don't match, the person gets pulled over, do everything manually.
Otherwise, they have to manually enter license plate information each time, and that can be tedious.
The point is, he used wire transfer to get the funds to a JAPANESE bank and then went to the Japanese bank in person to transfer money back home to China. He should have just used the wire transfer directly to a chinese bank to begin with, and then he wouldn't have needed to transfer out of Japan, and no one would have known.
Then what he should have done was not have the money deposited in a Japanese bank account to wire back home. He should have found an online bank in China and used Paypal or whatever escrow service to directly transfer the money that way. Then no bank in Japan would have been suspicious, he would maintain his visa status, and no one would be the wiser.
Have any of you even seen Edgy installed? The artwork you keep linking to isn't what was turned down, it's the artwork for the damn release.
And then your response was:
Furthermore, it looks extremely similar to the Dapper Drake artwork. I haven't seen Edgy Eft yet, but I immediately knew from looking at it that this must be the boring, incrementally modified theme since it looks incredibly similar to what was there before.
So... let's recap. The article says that the submitted artwork for Edgy Eft was turned down, and they polished up the Dapper Drake artwork and released it. The GP stated that the artwork people are linking to as "rejected artwork" is actually the Edgy Eft released artwork. And since the article clearly stated that the Edgy Eft released artwork was just modified Dapper Drake, your statement of "Furthermore, it looks extremely similar to the Dapper Drake artwork" shows that you didn't read the article at all and were just trying to show that you know something.
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He can communicate and interact with others -- it's called "the real world". He can buy things in stores. He can buy books to learn more about programming. The internet is a tool, not a requirement for life. It's a tool that he abused.
You make a valid point that he only abused a part of that tool -- the social networking sites. Maybe he should be banned from using any social networking applications/sites on the internet. No MySpace, no LiveJournal, no AIM/ICQ/Yahoo/MSN,Jabber/etc... But I'm fine with the judge's ruling.
1. Pay for the amount of time that was spent by the library re-arranging the books to the original order
2. Pay for the amount of down-time of the library where they had to close because the customers could not find the books they were looking for until everything was fixed
And maybe, since all that does is restore the damages and does nothing about the malicious intent, he should have something additional, like:
3. Banned from any library for 3 years
4. Since he affected the community, do 3 months of community service
So... I think his punishment is right in line with your example.
Gray. Seattle thinks the rest of the world is insane for insisting that the sky is blue.
Similarly, I use Ctrl-Alt-S to launch my screen saver... But I think the point here is you don't have to remember that Cygwin Rxvt is Ctrl-Shift-10, and Calc is Ctrl-Shift-F12, and IE is Ctrl-Shift-F6 and so on. If you know the name of the app, you just type "launch [appname]". That's probably easier than remembering which keyboard combination maps to which application.
Of course, most people probably have a small suite of applications they actually run all the time, and probably only 5-10 shortcuts would really be used, and that's simple to remember which application goes to which shortcut. To each their own, I guess. I'll never pay $25-$40 for something like that. Like one person suggested earlier, create a scripts directory, add it to your path, and then create scripts like "fire" and "word" and "doom3", then just use Windows-R to open the Run window, and type the name of the script.
Or, you can do like I do -- pin the common applications to your start menu (I think you can pin up to 10 applications, but not sure what the number is), and then you can use Ctrl-Esc and a few arrow keys to launch it. I find pinning common application to be very easy and useful.
Yeah, I tried that too. I think it would be nice if it was an "option". Then you could see how much it actually costs you do get Windows with a new PC.
As an aside, of the three models, only one of them allowed you to choose "No monitor", which is the Intel system. To go from a 19" LCD (default selection) to no monitor takes $240 off the price, which I think is pretty nice. However, that option was nowhere to be found on the two AMD systems. Considering I already have dual-20" LCD monitors, buying yet another makes no sense. And going from a 19" to a 17" (for the AMD systems) only takes off $40 from the price...
No, but if you eat enough fast food, that could happen...
Is that because you're not confident that you can read it now?
To play devil's advocate here, if they post a torrent and seed it, they are allowing you to DOWNLOAD it from them. However, if you have a stream to UPLOAD content to others (like a good torrent user), you do not have that right. So while they were the ones copying it to you, and that was their right, they never once gave you any rights to copy it again. So they just have to have a source sending it and another machine re-downloading it from you, and you've copied it without permission.
I've never run BSD. What I do know is that the applications I used required me to configure them to use ALSA, ESD (Enhance Sound Daemon), OpenSound (OSS), and maybe there were one or two more choices. Some apps would only support OpenSound and ALSA, while another would only be ESD, and another would be ESD or ALSA, etc... There was no guarantee of overlap of sound configuration choices for the apps I wanted to use. So somehow, these applications were calling different APIs depending on your configuration. That's broken. If/when Ubuntu/Linux solve this problem, I'll give them a shot.
I originally tried Ubuntu 5.4, then upgraded to 5.10, but that didn't fix my sound system issues, so I just wiped it. Maybe I'll try 7.4 when it comes out. As I said, I really wanted to use it, but just couldn't figure out the sound problems.
I've seen Ubuntu -- I hoped to use it as my primary OS. Did that for a couple months. But the standard FOSS solution of "instead of agreeing on a standard, everyone roll their own solution" meant that I had to change sound systems just to be able to use GAIM, Doom 3, and various other applications. When I could get them to actually use the same sound system, I found that the audio was hugely delayed (to the tune of 300-500 milliseconds) which meant when a monster attacked me in Doom 3, I didn't hear the sounds until I was already being attacked. When I shot, I would see the guy fall before I heard the sound. I had to tweak the buffering settings manually!
My point is that I had to switch between sound systems as my applications changed. In Windows, it's all the same. No special coding needed for the applications, no switching between systems, no worries about sounds being delayed.
No distribution of Linux is ready for the desktop until things as basic as sound are standardized into a single programmable interface and all applications use those APIs.
Disclaimer: I have not tried the latest version of Ubuntu. But my understanding is that the multiple sound systems problem is still a problem in general for Linux distributions. Fix it, and I'll be glad to try again.
Except when I send something to a friend, I do it like this: "NSFW: http://some.place.not/safe_for_work". I don't have the right to edit that link to make it "NSFW". So whoever created that webpage has to add the tags to the appropriate parts. What's in it for them? (I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm just wondering why Entensity.net would mark the content as NSFW.) Also, in some cases, just having pictures of girls in bikinis is enough to be NSFW, but do you really think that maximonline is going to add this tag?
Neither has the judge. Have fun convincing him that files on Kazaa are not what they seem to be.
That's an awesome statement! Do you mind if I start using that anytime I hear "xxx volts is quite enough to kill" by someone who thinks they know what the hell they're talking about? (It's amazing how many times this sort of thing gets incorrectly state and then subsequently corrected.)
Two ways this helps.
1. New plate does not have RFID signal. Police pull over car for having an improperly registered car, and do manual checks. If things are A-OK, the guy is sent off with a "fix-it ticket", which probably means no fine, he couldn't know the RFID chip was malfunctioning, but needs to get a new plate within 2 weeks or something. Or upon manual inspection, it is found that this is a stolen car (from VIN number, registration, etc...)
2. New plate has an RFID signal. Police driving along just do a "random" check. They point their RFID reader to the car, it pulls up recorded information about the car the plate is registered to. Make, model, color. If those don't match, the person gets pulled over, do everything manually.
Otherwise, they have to manually enter license plate information each time, and that can be tedious.
The point is, he used wire transfer to get the funds to a JAPANESE bank and then went to the Japanese bank in person to transfer money back home to China. He should have just used the wire transfer directly to a chinese bank to begin with, and then he wouldn't have needed to transfer out of Japan, and no one would have known.
They need to have "smart pantries" as well. Canned foods, boxed foods, etc...
And then when I go to the smart panty to find out what I can make, it can tell me...
(wait for it...)
Ramen Noodles!
Yes, but Google likes it when mean dogs eat cute kittens:
s +eating+cute+kittens
a ting+cute+kittens&mkt=en-US&form=QBNO
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=mean+dog
Results 1 - 10 of about 679,000 for mean dogs eating cute kittens. (0.09 seconds)
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=mean+dogs+e
mean dogs eating cute kittensPage 1 of 40,114 results
So Google is almost 17 times more likely to watch and laugh when mean dogs are eating cute kittens.
Then what he should have done was not have the money deposited in a Japanese bank account to wire back home. He should have found an online bank in China and used Paypal or whatever escrow service to directly transfer the money that way. Then no bank in Japan would have been suspicious, he would maintain his visa status, and no one would be the wiser.
And then your response was:
So... let's recap. The article says that the submitted artwork for Edgy Eft was turned down, and they polished up the Dapper Drake artwork and released it. The GP stated that the artwork people are linking to as "rejected artwork" is actually the Edgy Eft released artwork. And since the article clearly stated that the Edgy Eft released artwork was just modified Dapper Drake, your statement of "Furthermore, it looks extremely similar to the Dapper Drake artwork" shows that you didn't read the article at all and were just trying to show that you know something.